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...between different operatives is like trying to build a garden wall out of wet tissue. Bin Laden has denied any involvement, and the Taliban says the restrictions it has placed on his movements and communications make it impossible for him to have masterminded the attacks. Hamid Mir, a Pakistani journalist who claims to be bin Laden's biographer, says that on Sept. 11 he was handed a written message, purportedly from bin Laden: "I am not involved in these attacks, but I support them," he said...
...credit, of course, goes to Ulrich, who coined the phrase in a 1976 essay. While a professor at the University of New Hampshire, Ulrich penned “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735,” which appeared in American Quarterly. Journalist Kay Mills later included the piece in an anthology, and the quote (in actuality, “Well-behaved women seldom make history”) found its way into the mainstream. The original essay focused on those people that Cotton Mather called “the hidden ones” —women...
Rick Kaplan, former president of CNN-U.S. and a broadcast journalist for more than 30 years, is returning for his second semester at the Shorenstein Center. Like the other fellows, he said he believes the tragedy plays directly into his research, which focuses on the content of the current media...
...tried and given the death sentence for this murderous act, but the government pardoned her, according to journalist and author Don Oberdorfer, “on grounds that she was merely a brainwashed tool of the real culprits, the leaders of North Korea.” More caustically, another journalist wrote, “‘Virgin bomber’ Kim Hyon-hui fluttered her eyelashes, said she was ever so sorry, wrote a best-seller, and is now a millionaire in Seoul. That’s one lucky mass murderer.” The pardon-vs.-punishment debate...
...Rising seem okay. TIME, for its part, put a little red-white-and-blue into the magazine's logo in this week's issue. But individual reporters wearing them seem a little bit over the top. I wouldn't do it. But I'm a hypocrite on this issue. Journalist or not, I'd probably put an American flag in front of my house if I could find...