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...children, as well as the audience, are immediately confronted with the harsh realities of such a terrifying illness. Bergman fits in nicely with the rest of Field’s oeuvre—emotional women on the brink of considerable change. There is no detail omitted in this journal of a woman’s death, and we must watch the cast deal with home nurses, morphine, chemotherapy, and excessive vomiting. The horrifying and graphic scenes of illness are juxtaposed with comedy that sometimes works to raise the mood—but usually comes off as contrived. Each...
...that marketing strategy. On the face of it, KSM, as he is known inside the government, comes across as boasting, at times mentally unstable. It's also clear he is making things up. I'm told by people involved in the investigation that KSM was present during Wall Street Journal correspondent Danny Pearl's execution but was in fact not the person who killed him. There exists videotape footage of the execution that minimizes KSM's role. And if KSM did indeed exaggerate his role in the Pearl murder, it raises the question of just what else he has exaggerated...
...more dangerous turns that media can take. Most people accept that American news sources are biased, whether it’s a discussion about the relative merits of Fox News and National Public Radio, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, or Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann. But our humor should be nonpartisan. Jon Stewart belittles Bush as well as Hilary Clinton and Obama. Stephen Colbert mocks Republican representatives by forcing them to reveal that they don’t know the Ten Commandments, in addition to mocking Democratic representatives by forcing them to argue...
...trio of reporters from the Wall Street Journal won the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting yesterday, taking home $25,000 for a series that exposed the abuse of stock options in executive compensation...
...Journal story published in July fingered large companies such as Home Depot, Merrill Lynch, and T. Rowe Price for rushing to grant options to their executives as stock prices plunged in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks...