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...coverage of the Rally for Patriotism and American Unity (News, “Student Rally For Patriotism Draws Few,” Sept. 26). A front-page, above-the-fold headline is devoted to the fact that few people attended an outdoor rally in the rain. While the second paragraph mentions this “steady rain,” the connection is left to those with more common sense than Crimson editors. I eagerly await the first liberal IOP speaker whose sparsely attended talk on a cold and snowy Cambridge night is headlined by The Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Careful Editing Needed on Articles | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

...Durban, the behavior of some in the NGO forum was contemptible. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were on sale; flyers asking (approvingly) WHAT IF HITLER HAD WON? were freely displayed. In more than one place in its rambling, incoherent, 474-paragraph-long "Declaration," the forum declared Israel to be a "racist, apartheid state." (The full text of the declaration is available at www.racism.org.za I urge readers to look at it.) Michael Salberg, a New York City attorney attending the conference as an observer for the Anti-Defamation League, says of the forum, "There is no way to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disgrace in Durban | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Integral to Hax's winning way is how clear she is about her own deficiencies. Rather than pretend that she can fix problems with a paragraph, she is quick to recommend that people in real trouble get professional help. While other columnists sometimes sound as if they're writing from a high perch, Hax says her takes come from accepting her own flaws and embarrassments. When she snaps at readers to wrench their heads out of their navels, it's because she knows how self-absorbed she can be. Asked what shocks her most in her letters, she lists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Straight Talker | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Dennis introduced me to Grave Digger, which weighs 10,400 lbs., has 1,400 horsepower and gets five gallons to the mile. This is the manliest paragraph I will ever write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...blockmate, Samuel H. Perwin ’04, who makes a dashing Harold Hill), and at a regional theatre on Long Island. And what was the number one theatrical experience of the summer? Well, I’ll be writing a column on that in the fall, so this paragraph was basically a teaser...

Author: By Adam R. Perlman, | Title: POSTCARD FROM WASHINGTON:The View From D.C. | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

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