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After the screening, the audience was given a questionnaire to identify possible improvements that could be made to the film before its official premiere in February. The documentary is also scheduled to air on PBS on March 23, the eve of national world tuberculosis day, according to a press release...
...meeting organized by the Alcohol and College Health Committee and University Health Services concluded that there is potential for a revised amnesty policy, according to a participant. The meeting, which was closed to the press, brought together College administrators, medical professionals, and student leaders to discuss concerns students have raised about the policy...
...According to a press release purporting to be from the group that organized the stunt, the "special editions" required six months of planning, 1.2 million papers were distributed and thousands of people participated in the process. The stunt also included a website - which is frequently overloaded and therefore slow - where users could read fake stories, click on ads and watch animated versions of those ads printed in the paper. Here's the text for a few dubious ones...
...mail sent around ahead of the prank solicited volunteers for such posts as a "digital fun squad," "legal support" and "press liaison." The media gossip blog Gawker printed a bulletin supposedly from the organizers that told volunteers to find strategically located U-Haul trucks (which held the papers) around the city. Going for an ultimate guerilla effect, the bulletin said, "We want to maintain maximum mystery around this, for as long as possible - at least for a couple of days...
...ruling government to frame the accused for political gains. "A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his religion or caste. The BJP objects to the term 'Hindu terrorists'. By condemning the majority, one seeks to gain the minority vote," BJP vice president Yashwant Sinha said at a press conference in New Delhi on October 24, after the first set of arrests...