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...report important stories ignored or overlooked by the media. The larger purpose, according to the website, is to "compel the media to get back to reporting in the public interest." For North Country, Participant joined forces with the Family Violence Prevention Fund, the Feminist Majority Foundation and now to launch "Stand Up," an action campaign that asks viewers to lobby Congress to renew the Violence Against Women Act and that challenges them to implement and support other antiharassment practices at home, at school and in the workplace...
...your sense of wonder In Shanghai, as in many Asian cities, people don't play golf as a break from business. Golf is business, with many a deal or joint venture sealed on the fairway. That being the case, executive visitors to China's finance capital will welcome the launch of Slice, the first English-language magazine devoted to Shanghai's extensive golfing scene. The free magazine - distributed through high-end hotels and in restaurants popular with expatriates - promises to profile five courses in the Shanghai area (and further afield) with every issue, and gives details of local golf-gear...
...Romanian officials originally denied that any secret bases had ever existed on their territory, but more recently, after the former Prime Minister acknowledged that the Romanian government did not have access to all parts of a base used by the U.S. during the Iraq conflict, they have agreed to launch a parliamentary inquiry. Since the country aspires to join the European Union as early as 2007, and the existence of "dark bases" housing "ghost prisoners" would contravene European human rights standards, Romania may be forced to take a closer look at the activities of its U.S. ally on its soil...
...stairwell at Club Umbria smelled like perfume last Wednesday. It was launch night for Emily Washkowitz ’08 and Rebecca A. Kaden ’08’s new magazine, Scene, going down eight months after they came up with the idea and about 12 hours before the greater Harvard population would see the result...
...officers and then paid Iraqi newspapers to print them or hired Iraqi journalists to sell them as their own stories. U.S. officers in Baghdad insisted last week they were only trying to get the truth out by buying editorial space, a customary practice in Iraq that prompted Hughes to launch programs there to train journalists to be more independent. Says a Defense Department official: "This certainly undercuts what she's trying...