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...getting death threats from the local organized crime syndicate, he's keeping a low profile under 24-hour guard. Umberto Eco has compared the situation to the Islamic fatwa against Salman Rushdie, but the mob's violent persecution of muckrakers is, in fact, a particularly Italian legacy. "You need journalists," says Giovanni De Mauro, a Rome magazine editor whose journalist uncle was killed by the mob. "But then the battle must be waged by politicians and law enforcement." One day, they might help get Saviano back on his Vespa...
...does McCormick write for? Kids. The research on the teen sex trade was for her new young-adult novel, Sold (Hyperion Books for Children; 263 pages). A journalist by training, she's an avid researcher, but her books are not dry. Sold is told in poetic vignettes in the voice of Lakshmi, a 13-year-old girl who lives in rural Nepal. Life is grueling there for women young and old. "A girl is like a goat," a local saying goes. "Good as long as she gives you milk and butter. But not worth crying over when it's time...
...sentence for former Defense Intelligence Agency official Lawrence A. Franklin. Franklin pleaded guilty a year ago to three felony counts involving improper disclosure and handling of classified information about the Middle East and terrorism to the two lobbyists, who in turn are accused of passing it on to a journalist and a foreign government, widely believed to be Israel. The two lobbyists, who have denied any wrongdoing but were dismissed by AIPAC in April of 2005, were indicted on felony counts of conspiring with government officials to receive classified information they were not authorized to have access to and providing...
...Mission Accomplished,’ Herbits told Rumsfeld that the administration’s six months of planning for the Iraq invasion had been a failure, according to Woodward. “This is not Nancy Pelosi, this is not some think tank, this is not some journalist,” Woodward said. “This is [Rumsfeld’s] guy.” After speaking for 20 minutes, Woodward then spent almost 40 minutes answering audience questions, which ranged from succinct queries of Woodward’s opinion to confrontational polemics. Woodward acknowledged the media?...
...checks on mainstream news sources and provide unlimited space for information, said panelist Rebecca MacKinnon, the co-founder of Global Voices Online, a non-profit media project sponsored by the Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “In the past, if a journalist didn’t pick up on something...it didn’t go anywhere,” she said. “You don’t have to wait for professionals to have space in their newspapers or even on their Web sites.” Martin Nisenholtz...