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...fellow interns that summer, Jayson Blair, was also talented and ambitious, and quite a bit luckier. Despite some reprimands for sloppy reporting--like missing the fact that a murder victim was not shot but strangled--he rose fast at the Times, made friends, wooed mentors and eventually got sent to Washington to join the team covering the hunt for the Beltway sniper. There he brought glory to the paper with front-page scoops that left rivals shaking their heads in wonder--and disbelief...
DIED. RUSSELL B. LONG, 84, Democratic Senator from Louisiana for 38 years; of apparent heart failure; in Washington. First elected in 1948, a day shy of his 30th birthday, he became the first Senator preceded in the chamber by both parents: the legendary Huey P. Long and Rose McConnell Long. A master of procedural rules and tax arcana, he was responsible for, among other things, the earned-income tax credit and the $1 taxpayer checkoff box to fund presidential campaigns...
After being in charge of security precautions at New England industrial facilities during World War II, he rose to become supervisor of the Boston FBI Field Office’s Criminal Division, and helped investigate the infamous Brinks robbery...
...doubt a few besotted cheers rose from the frat houses. But the ranking dismayed Indiana's administrators. Officially, at least, drinking isn't even allowed on campus, except in a few residences for older students. And the school had been trying harder than ever to enforce the rules since the alcohol-related deaths of a sophomore in 1998 and a freshman three years later. Since January 2001, six fraternities have been thrown off campus for alcohol violations. The number of underage students busted for boozing has more than quadrupled since 1998. The school even launched a controversial policy...
...villages, where 800 million people live. But in Hebei alone, the number of reported cases shot up from 48 at the end of April to 157 on May 10. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a travel advisory for Inner Mongolia and Tianjin, after their SARS caseloads rose to 284 and 149 respectively. Last week, Premier Wen Jiabao said there is currently "no large-scale epidemic emerging in the rural areas." Even so, he warned that dilapidated medical facilities, poor equipment and shoddy monitoring for epidemics were "hidden dangers for the spread of SARS" in the countryside...