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...dictators, as newspaper readers thrill at no longer getting just the day's propaganda. In Indonesia, the number of newspapers has increased from a few dozen when strongman Suharto was deposed in 1998 to roughly 800 today. The market is so buoyant that a new English-language paper, the Jakarta Globe, revved up its printing presses last November, just as several cash-strapped American papers were readying their final editions. "The Indonesian middle class is growing, and many households subscribe to two newspapers," says Ali Basyah Suryo, strategic adviser to the start-up Globe. "People like to hold the newspaper...
...quality to it, and there’s a lot of lampooning. It’s not meant to be arch; it’s fine if you don’t get it. If you do, maybe it’s amusing. 12.FM: If you wrote a historical paper, you would hope that people judge you by your insight. How should people judge you through this work? Is it just a romp?JL: It would be very easy to make too much of it. Yes, it is a romp. But also, because we really care about this period, it?...
...semester, Professor Sarah Jansen is getting a pack of students drooling over the study of canines in the classroom. Jansen, whose course focuses on the role that dogs have played throughout history, is no newcomer to the study of four-legged animals. “The very first research paper that I ever wrote was about dogs,” said Jansen, who is also an experienced dog trainer. The class has received an overwhelming response and currently has more than 100 students enrolled. But the study of the canis genus is not confined to the classroom. Some students?...
...TRAITOR TO FINE EDUCATION”But by FDR’s first run for the U.S. presidency in 1932 Harvard had not changed enough. A straw poll held by The Crimson revealed overwhelming student support for Herbert Hoover, FDR’s Republican opponent. The Crimson, his former paper, would later brand FDR “a traitor to his fine education.” Classmate Walter Russell Bowie, class of 1904, noted “the rancorous and almost hysterical political animus which rose against him and what he stood for among the privileged groups to which many...
...sworn affidavit with the House's impeachment panel chair, outlining multiple conversations he had in fact had with Blagojevich's brother and other of the governor's lieutenants, which included requests for him to raise cash. The Chicago Sun-Times first disclosed the inconsistencies in a weekend report. The paper then suggested Monday that Burris only came clean after being contacted about the matter by federal investigators, something Burris denied Monday as "absolutely, positively not true." (See the Top 10 Scandals...