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...free stuff. Some journalism could become a kind of volunteer work, performed by eyewitnesses, passionate amateurs or professionals in other fields who use journalism as a loss leader to sell their books or build their brands. (That's the model of the legion of unpaid writers at the Huffington Post.) Even if you filter your own news from Twitter, you're paying in time and effort. (Watch an interview with Arianna Huffington...
...evening, rallying against a city plan to create a municipal water authority. Among the agitators is Amiri Baraka, a prominent, controversial African-American poet and activist. Baraka, 74, has won a trunkful of literary prizes but was essentially stripped of his New Jersey poet-laureate title after penning a post-9/11 poem that was denounced as anti-Semitic. The writer, who was reared in Newark and still lives in the city, is a voice from the civil rights era who can sound resentful of postracial politicians like Booker and Obama. To Baraka, they are profiting from the opportunities that...
...researchers—possibly from Harvard. He said that Yale is offering attractive positions for new researchers, and that he certainly hoped he would be able to move his entire lab, which according to its Web site includes two assistant professors, four junior faculty instructors, and almost 10 post-doctoral fellows...
...financial crisis, the Medical School had been working to revamp faculty development and diversity efforts. These initiatives, Tarbell said, had been identified as one of the many priorities spawning from Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier's strategic planning process launched in Oct. 2007, soon after Flier assumed his post...
...fall, he will need the support of all 8 million supporters on his e-mail lists and many, many more. The White House is clearly trying to change the terms of the debate; during the press conference, Obama borrowed an argument from Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post by warning that the bigger risk lies in not passing health-care reform, since the status quo promises only higher costs and less coverage. Over the weekend, Obama also tried to counter the notion that reform will add costs to small-business employers, a frequent attack of the current plans...