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...less optimistic than whites but believe more strongly in education). Editors have even employed polls to study journalism itself. In the mid-1980s, with newspaper readership declining relative to population growth, researchers diagnosed widespread public skepticism about journalists' methods and motives. Confounded by inconsistencies in those surveys, Times Mirror, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and several other papers, hired the Gallup organization to get to the truth. Gallup reassuringly reported in 1985 that no credibility crisis existed...
...Watson and the Shark, 1778. The black has just thrown a line, without avail, to naked Watson, who wallows helplessly in the green waters of Havana Harbor as the shark charges in to bite his leg off. As McElroy observes, the outstretched arms of Watson and the black "mirror each other," and it may even be that Copley meant Watson's presence in the water to remind us, by reversal as it were, of the slavers' practice of dumping dead Africans into...
When I actually went to the reception over vacation, however, I found that "Washington Wives" (or sisters) didn't get to meet anyone famous--just other wives. And the only classic power-brokering we did was trying to get a good place in front of the Ladies' Room mirror...
...world does offer examples of prosperous states with no important resources other than skilled workers; Hong Kong is one. Says Algimantas Cekuolis, a People's Deputy from Lithuania: "We are the mirror image of South Korea and Singapore 30 years ago." But Lithuania depends on the rest of the Soviet Union for 90% of its raw materials and energy, which cost far more than the food and household products it turns out. Today Vilnius pays the equivalent of $6 per bbl. for oil delivered from Siberia; at world prices it would cost four times that. Lithuania is also a victim...
...According to the police, Bennett bragged to his 15-year-old nephew that he had robbed the Stuarts and taken their jewelry. In the warrant the police obtained to search Bennett's home, they underlined the recollection that Bennett said he told Stuart, ^ "Don't look in the rearview mirror." Those words were almost identical to the ones that Stuart, in a brief interview with the police right after the shooting, claimed the killer used. Already in custody on a charge of robbing a Brookline video store, Bennett was placed in a lineup as soon as Stuart was well enough...