Word: janet
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...masquerading as real journalism. Rarely, if ever, has a Western reporter so consistently trumpeted the party line of a brutal dictatorship. It is perhaps too much to hope that the Times would voluntarily “return” Duranty’s prize, as the Washington Post returned Janet Cooke’s prize in 1981. And yes, no Pulitzer has ever been outright revoked. But it’s hard to fathom another instance where the Pulitzer Board has made, or will make, such an egregious, indisputable error in judgment...
According to the story, Linder protested initially, but after meeting with associate athletic director Frank Araneo, he saw the administration’s perspective and later told the Daily Sun, “We have dignitaries coming to these games, Janet Reno comes to these games, Congressmen coming to these games, that sort of thing...
Princeton University, which remained with an Early Decision program, showed a more than 20 percent decrease in applications since last year, according to Princeton Dean of Admissions Janet Lavin Rapelye. The decrease may be as high as 25 percent, Rapelye added...
...decision to recognize the plaintiffs’ standing is important, and the denial of preliminary relief is no surprise and is not discouraging,” said Professor of Law Janet Halley, an outspoken critic of the Pentagon’s policy and an expert on the military’s treatment of gays and lesbians...
Indeed, the central difference between Buddhism in America and in Asia is meditation. Though most Americans may perceive Buddhism as primarily practiced through meditation, that is certainly not the historical case. Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, says that traditionally, “meditation is usually done only by specialized people,” such as monks, nuns and yogis. These specialists typically spend much more time on meditation than most modern lay people. Myhrum recalls a funny conversation from her stay at a monastery in Taiwan, when a bemused nun asked...