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...five Israelis. Sharon infuriated Washington with an accusation that the U.S. was seeking to appease Arab states to gain support for its international coalition. President Bush earlier appeared to endorse the notion of an independent Palestinian state. building international pressure, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar offered to release British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who was arrested for entering the country illegally. The Taliban also offered the freedom of eight international aid workers, held since the beginning of August on charges of promoting Christianity, if the U.S. were to "stop issuing threats." RUSSIA Plane Mystery Prosecutors launched a criminal inquiry into...
...Remember, this was not Osama bin Laden sitting down for a chat with Connie Chung. It was in fact a terrorist infomercial, a homemade tape saying exactly what they wanted to say with no mediation and no annoying journalist to ask questions. Yet every American television news outlet chose to air it in full and unedited as though it were Osama Live...
...relationship. When she posed this contradiction to Lewinsky during the interview, Lewinsky chose to walk out. Gross went on to address the ethics of doing an interview in which both interviewer and interviewee are equally uncomfortable, and cited the case as a good example of the fine line a journalist treads between voyeurism and journalism...
DIED. SALLY RESTON, 89, journalist and photographer who chronicled women's lives in Europe during World War II; in Washington. She was a major influence on and journalistic partner to her husband, columnist and Washington correspondent James Reston; together they produced the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard from 1968 to 1988. They met in college on a double date, for which Sally had been matched with James' fraternity brother. "She was a Phi Beta Kappa," James Reston later recalled. "I was a C-minus student...
...DIED. VICTOR WONG, 74, Chinese-American artist, journalist and actor; near Locke, California. A member of San Francisco's "beat" scene in the 1950s, Wong became one of the first ethnic Chinese broadcast reporters in the U.S. Although he suffered from Bell's palsy, casting directors found his looks perfect for the wise-old-man roles he played in films such as The Joy Luck Club and The Last Emperor. DIED. ISAAC STERN, 81, dynamic violinist who was an ardent supporter of Israel and a tireless advocate of music education and government funding of the arts; in New York City...