Word: reader
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...also true that news agents (or intelligent agents as they are sometimes called) aren't new at all. Sites such as the New York Times will electronically send out headlines based upon a reader's interests. Similarly, Amazon.com will suggest books based upon your past purchases. But Google doesn't care so much about your surfing habits. The search technology is predicated on the notion that what gets hit gets served. So Google's search results favor sites that get the most repeat traffic. Call it editorial judgment by dint of popular demand...
...reaction was polarized. "Cut this good man some slack. He deserves another chance," wrote one reader. But, says Loren Ghiglione, dean of Northwestern University's journalism school, "here's somebody working for the most powerful news organization in Chicago. What he did was an abuse of personal power and an abuse of the newspaper he worked for." That's the rationale Tribune editors used too: "Staff members are forbidden to use their position at the newspaper to gain advantage in personal activities." They insist her age was irrelevant, which has led to more questions. Does this mean...
...experienced reader of baseball biographies would know that when Jane Leavy began her book about Sandy Koufax, she was already behind in the count. Strike one: most baseball biographies are about as interesting as foul balls. Strike two: in the 36 years since he last threw his atomic fastball, Koufax has accommodated the intrusions of reporters about as frequently as he used to accommodate opposing hitters...
...must a child be shaken awake from her dream life into reality? Nine, says Ratnam's haunting new film A Peck on the Cheek. Amudha (the sweetly precocious P.S. Keerthana) is celebrating her birthday, secure in the love of her Madras parents, a writer and a TV news reader. They have chosen this day to give the girl startling news: she is adopted, and the identity of her birth mother has been lost in the carnage of the Sri Lankan...
...reader looking for the source of Naipaul's inspiration will be rewarded here, finding in several essays early drafts of episodes that became part of his Indian travel narrative, An Area of Darkness. Many of the details and themes in a long and truly frightening piece, "Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad," he turned into his novel Guerrillas. In "A New King for Congo," his meditation on the late Zairean kleptocrat, President Mobutu, he alludes to Heart of Darkness, comparing Conrad's Kurtz to Mobutu: "Seventy years later, at this bend in the river, something like Conrad...