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...compulsory staff cuts would trigger a strike ballot. But the bulk of the evening was devoted to fond reminiscences of past Observer glories and readings from its archive. (Wisely, nobody attempted the 26,000-word leading article published in 1956, a translation of Nikita Khrushchev's famous speech attacking Joseph Stalin.) "Are there any more questions?" asked David Mitchell, a British comedian and Observer supporter, who was drafted to chair the meeting. "Yes," came a voice. "What do we do next?" "Literally," answered Mitchell, "we all go and have a drink." Nobody present offered up a better plan...
Nicaragua's erstwhile Marxist Ortega, who calls his journalist critics "the children of Goebbels" after Hitler propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, was the subject of a special report over the summer by the New York City-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) for his government's harassment of independent media. His bill would force every journalist to be licensed and signed up with the Sandinista-controlled Nicaraguan Journalists Association, an obscure guild to which only about 20% of reporters in the country now belong...
...coined in the late 1940s by critics of President Harry Truman's national health-care plan. From 1945 to 1960, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)--which was founded in 1938 to hunt down suspected Nazi sympathizers--interrogated more than 3,000 people. And in 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy launched his infamous witch hunts for communists in the Federal Government. When no evidence backing his charges emerged, the Senate censured...
...candidates have promised to bring hot breakfast back, and I’m not sure feasible that is,” said Mather Representative Joseph K. Kim ’12, who served as a North Yard representative last year. “But we’re definitely going to be talking a lot about budget cuts...We want to actually be a part of the discourse...so we can make decisions together...
...linebacker Alex Gross returns after leading the league in tackles a year ago, and senior Lou Mills paced the Ivies in sacks. Columbia is also one of the few teams to return its starting quarterback. Senior Shane Kelly will have his three top targets—Austin Knowlin, Taylor Joseph, and Mike Stephens— back as well...