Word: press
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According to a news release PSLM issued Wednesday night, Jeff Ballinger, founder of the human rights group, Press for Change, said he found PWC's methods "basically unsound...
...should ever confuse Harvard withWal-Mart, Microsoft or McDonalds," said Parker, alecturer at the Kennedy School of Government andthe Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics andPublic Policy...
...eleven teenagers who maintained the site are students at Field High School in a small town called Brimfield. According to an Associated Press report, their web site was "filled with images of dragons and castles and dark poetry," and it referred to the Littleton massacre explicitly, although hardly in positive terms: "I wonder how long it'll be before we're allowed to wear our trenchcoats anymore. You know those screwed up kids in Colorado were wearing them, so that means I will also kill someone, and so will all my friends." MORE...
...Army along the Albanian border -- but any significant retreat will sharply raise pressure on NATO to call off the bombers. "Last week President Clinton said bombing could stop only if there was a substantial Serb withdrawal, and Milosevic seems to have decided this would be an advantageous time to press NATO into negotiations," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He's going to partially fulfill NATO's demands, hoping that the mounting pressure on the alliance will work in his favor." If the alliance does suspend its bombing campaign, restarting it may prove politically impossible...
...concept of community standards is disappearing." If people in Cincinnati, or anywhere else in the country, can log on to porn web sites from anywhere else in the world, how can local standards exist, let alone be defined, for any medium? This is the argument Flynt wants to press and win at his trial, and thereby "turn himself from smut peddler to First Amendment statesman," says Stein. But Flynt may not get his chance. "The prosecutors in this case were smart," says Stein. "They sent underage kids to buy the porn." And the laws on protecting youngsters are especially stringent...