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...black foreign reporter, filed a lawsuit charging that while based in Cairo, he was paid less than other foreign correspondents and denied a promotion despite a favorable review and several high-profile assignments. Khalid, who is a Muslim, also charged that foreign editor Loren Jenkins referred to Arabs as "rag heads" in a meeting--a claim NPR has acknowledged by disciplining Jenkins. But NPR managing editor Bill Buzenberg insists that Khalid "got to Cairo and never applied himself...
...Gazette, a rag that's full of fault...
...mean to pick on the boys (and two girls) at Peninsula. We just want to comment on the rag's latest attempt to recruit. Apparently some miscreants have been fabricating fake Peninsula posters and we feel silly...because we can't tell which posters are real and which ones are not. But neither can Peninsula and that makes...
After reading the most recent edition of that most vile publication known as Peninsula, I find myself, as an editor of The Crimson, proud to be included on that rag's "Official Enemies List." A handful of reactionaries--who use a post office box as a mailing address--have managed to single out some of the most intelligent and thoughtful persons and organizations on campus as enemies of Harvard. Why anyone other than the author would be proud of his or her association with the September cover story ("Know Your Enemy") is beyond me, yet it must be read...
...little cookie-baking smarts that his first batch burned and the fire department showed up. Two decades later, his company operates in 38 states and has annual sales of about $100 million. He has pushed hard since he was eight, when a fire at his father's rag-recycling business forced the family into bankruptcy. Coles did yard work in the neighborhood to bring in money, eventually hiring others in his enterprise. He held two jobs in high school and never attended college. At 31, he founded a clothing company and then turned to cookies...