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...there's plenty to criticize about the project too: the Panorama took nine months and more than 150 people to produce. Only seven of them were full-time staff members. Reporters didn't have word limits. The Bay Bridge investigation was funded by outside sources (San Francisco Public Press and Spot.us). None of the sports section's 16 pages contain game scores; eight of them are filled by a Stephen King essay on the World Series. Most of the paper went to press weeks before it came out, making it a poor source for breaking news. (The front section...
...starters, this summer when her husband held the customary I-have-disappointed-my-family press conference, she did not appear alongside him. This was a doubly wise move, since the governor apparently chose to make the most emotional and difficult announcement of his life without a script. Not only did Jenny Sanford avoid looking like a fool for literally standing by her man, she didn't have to be associated with what quickly devolved into a p.r. train wreck. (His rambling, 18-minute speech included weeping, a mention of his lifelong love of camping and a "surreal" conversation...
Then, not long after her husband's confession, Jenny gave an interview to the Associated Press. She was a model of control, revealing just enough detail about the affair to communicate her blamelessness in the events that transpired without letting her situation tip into the pitiable. Wearing a perky printed blouse, she stayed relentlessly on message: she was holding up her end of the deal - if her husband wanted back into the family, he would have to reciprocate. "It's one thing to forgive adultery," she said. "It's another thing to condone it." (Read a two-minute...
Indeed, though much of the press about Harvardfml has been negative, pointing to its posts as evidence of privileged Harvard students’ self-centered or isolationist tendencies, the blog offers evidence of a shared experience students go through together. The fact that there are reoccurring characters in the posts, that there are statements made that go unchallenged, and that the blog itself reflects what is being talked about on campus are all evidence of cohesion. Anyone who has visited the site more than once will have learned that CS50 is hard, but that there is an attractive...
...surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks, was still struggling as a day laborer for a catering business in Lahore, according to his statement to Mumbai police. Fahim Ansari, who is on trial in Mumbai for providing maps and logistical help to the attackers, was working at a printing press in Dubai, waiting to be called up for his first session at an LeT training camp, according to a dossier on Ansari prepared by Indian authorities. Sabahuddin Ahmed, the other co-accused, was a Bangalore-based operative for LeT, according to his statement to police, but he allegedly spent the fall...