Word: paper
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Still, by Friday it's all a distant memory: I've handed in my last paper. I've taken my last exam. My four-year academic adventure is, alas, complete...
...regularly edited by these beat editors. For daily stories, Chang says, "we have to work under extremely tight deadlines, and we just don't have the luxury of a publication with a longer production cycle." For example, if a speech event takes place at eight o'clock and the paper has to go to press in a matter of hours, then there is often no time to check all the facts the speaker might have thrown out. As for quotations, the current policy is to try and confirm quotes by reading them back to the speaker "on matters that...
...gave my computer an angry stare this past Tuesday afternoon. I had a 17-page paper due Friday and an inbox full of unanswered mail. But my computer was not sitting in its customary spot my desk. It was packed in a cardboard box at the University Information Systems (UIS) parking lot in Allston...
That was all the endorsement most journalists needed to hear. The Times wields so much influence as the paper of record--and has a reputation for being so conservative in its news judgment--that few reporters could justify holding their own stories while checking out all the details. And even those who did produce more balanced pieces only seemed to reinforce the impression that something really big had happened. Wire services ticked off the highlights. Television anchors and radio announcers provided the sound bites. And the tabloids dutifully served up the tearful stories of cancer patients desperate to try anything...
GEORGE HARRISON proved last week that if you're rich and famous enough, you can paper over some of the errors of your youth. Harrison went to court and persuaded a judge to stop the sale of a recording of the Beatles singing drunkenly in Hamburg, Germany, in 1962. What Harrison called one of the band's "crummiest" performances was caught on tape when the not-yet Fab Four went to the Star Club to play their last gig after signing with EMI. Unfortunately, the Liverpudlian lads had a little too much zu trinken beforehand. Lingasong Music, which wanted...