Word: knell
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...behemoth CBS is feeling the crunch. This major media network, which The New York Times labels “the home of the most celebrated news division in broadcasting,” may potentially outsource its investigative reporting to fellow media giant CNN. This move would be a death knell to the great tradition of reporting which has led to such famous figures such as Walter Cronkite and Edward Murrow. What’s more, it is representative of an unfortunate decline in investigative reporting across all news outlets...
...story hit the Web, sitting atop the website’s “Most Emailed” list was a story about “celebrating the semicolon” on a subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...
...taking that risk, Bhutto must have been confident that Pakistan could find its own way, even without her, toward becoming a more stable, peaceful nation. "I think her death is a body blow to democracy," says Bishop Michael, "but not a death knell. The political process, the judiciary process and the civil liberties movement all flourish in Pakistan. It would be difficult to stop all of that." Now all Britain's Pakistanis can do is wait and hope that he's right...
...even that won't be easy, since three Republican candidates are vying for the third spot in Iowa - Arizona Sen. John McCain, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Thompson, each with poll numbers that hover around 10%. Though fourth or fifth place is not necessarily a death knell for any of them, they could all certainly use the bump. As Huckabee likes to say on the trail, "There are three tickets out of Iowa - first class, business class, and coach...
...from the inner cities of the United States to the orphanages of South Africa, the president of Sesame Street Workshop told a crowd at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) yesterday. “Sesame Street reaches children in every demographic group,” said Gary E. Knell. “We have received more Emmy awards than any other show on TV—117, but who’s counting?” Knell’s talk was sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Transnational Studies Initiative, but he joked that...