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...Maier, former ABC political correspondent Linda Douglass, and University of California at Los Angeles doctoral student Elizabeth Stein are this semester’s fellows, the Center announced Monday. In addition, Mark Halperin ’87, the political director of ABC News, will serve as a non-resident joint fellow at the Institute of Politics and the Shorenstein Center. There was substantial competition to garner the fellowship—which funds research projects addressing the influence of the press on public politics—according to Shorenstein Center Fellows and Programs Administrator Edith Holway, There were fourty-five applicants...
...Staff members have been contacting local and national media in Mexico for help, and the issue has garnered increasing coverage over the week.At least one United States university is already reacting to the news from across the border.The provost of Texas Christian University, which shares a joint-degree program with UDLA, said that TCU is reconsidering its ties with UDLA.Meanwhile, despite UDLA’s assertion that the paper will be back on track soon, several staff members said they would not work for the paper while it remains under administrative control.“Why would anyone work...
...Arafat? In the summer of 1982 the redoubtable chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization was driven out of Lebanon by Israeli invaders, and his forces scattered throughout the Arab world. The elusive Arafat skipped to Tunisia, where he pursued the P.L.O.'s diplomatic and military strategies, including a failed joint peace effort with an old adversary, Jordan's King Hussein. Now Arafat's P.L.O. has returned to Lebanon with vengeance. In the bloodiest fighting since rival Christian factions clashed a year ago, Arafat is struggling to regain his former stronghold in the strife-torn country. And an array...
...Downtown Eastside prostitutes die gruesome deaths is old news, and largely ignored. Scores of women from that area have vanished since 1978. Only in 2001 did Canada's national police force, then investigating a separate case of prostitute serial killings in the province, team up with Vancouver police. The joint task force now lists more than 60 missing women; police said the DNA, remains or belongings of about half of those have been linked to Pickton's pig farm...
...Pickton's tale unfolds in court in a local suburb, the streets outside throng with police and sheriffs, panhandlers and patients released from a local mental hospital, college students and office workers who line up at local coffee shops. A stone's throw from the court is a strip joint advertising, in neon, "Mugs and Jugs." Nearby, a shop displays garish Valentine's Day wares: a larger-than-life knight in shining armor standing tall beside a Queen of Hearts. It's a costume shop, of course. Vancouver, in these dark days, has a dearth of real-life romantic heroes...