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Under a $5 million contract negotiated last year by the U.S. command's Information Operations Task Force, the Lincoln Group, a Washington-based p.r. firm, translated upbeat stories written by military information 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...
...while. Magura played three years at Fargo South High School—he was Rookie of the Year there, too—and the summer before his senior year, he attended three USHL camps. Two coaches told him they weren’t interested, and a third, from the Lincoln (Neb.) Stars, promised to get back to him. The phone didn’t ring until the first week in September. Magura had already enrolled for his senior year at Fargo South, and “I had to make a decision overnight if I wanted to go play...
Participants in the study were Florida State University, Georgia Tech, Lehigh University, Louisiana State University, University of Colorado, University of Delaware, University of Iowa, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of Vermont, and University of Wisconsin...
...questions from each country's press corps, was filled with surreal moments. Roh went off on a tangent in which he propounded an unconventional reading of American Civil War history in explaining his own country's ginger approach to North Korean human rights issues. "I do understand that President Lincoln was quite slow in liberating the slaves in the United States," Roh said. "This was because the President, if he took the lead in this issue, he thought that America would be divided in opinion, and this would be very serious. In reality, the Civil War did take place...
...spree” in Wellesley refers to their “party house,” that year the Longfellow House in Wellesley Hills. As described in The Club’s by-laws, each year the members rented a home in an upscale suburb, like Wellesley, Gloucester, or Lincoln. There, they’d host “house parties” every few weeks. These parties were no mere daytrip; they usually lasted from Friday evening to Sunday morning. In addition, members also often congregated in the homes of other members...