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FULLERTON, Calif.—It took a three-year postseason drought, a mild California night, and, between the raucous 3,604 in attendance and a nationwide television audience tuning in, throngs of eager spectators to bring Harvard College back to the world of big-time college baseball...
FULLERTON, Calif.—It took a three-year postseason drought, a mild California night, and, between the raucous 3,604 in attendance and a nationwide television audience tuning in, throngs of eager spectators to bring Harvard College back to the world of big-time college baseball...
...professional news agency, OhmyNews gets up to 70% of its copy from some 38,000 "citizen reporters" like Chang-basically anyone with a story and a laptop to write it on. Editors vet the articles, rejecting nearly one-third. Launched in 2000, it has snowballed into a kind of raucous online mall for Korea's wired younger generation-a place to get news, absorb the buzz or just hang out. It is also giving young Koreans a political voice, upending the conservative traditional media models of their parents' generation...
...whim of the Zeitgeist. It is certainly a boon for critics looking for (or inventing) common threads in important films. But all three directors -and British director James Marsh, who has a much-noted feature shown out of competition -are investigating the pull of the raucous past on the calmer present. The films ask: What is identity? Are we the people we were or the ones we become? Can we ever escape our past, or can we only learn to live with...
...DIED. RENE RIVKIN, 61, disgraced Australian stockbroker whose investment tip sheet The Rivkin Report brought market advice to the masses before his conviction for insider trading in 2003; of an apparent suicide; in Sydney. Rivkin, whose lavish lifestyle included raucous parties aboard his $4 million yacht, more than 100 exotic cars and a fondness for Cuban cigars, was sentenced to nine months' periodic detention over a purchase of shares in Qantas Airways made after receiving a tip-off about a possible merger. Rarely seen in public since his release, Rivkin had admitted to depression and in recent years suffered from...