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...roster of complaints against the press is diverse, even contradictory, but there is an instructive consistency to the questions that the public asks most often: Are reporters scrupulously accurate, or will they reshape a quote, ignore a fact, even concoct an anonymous "source" in order to make a point? Are they fair and objective? Why are there so many leaks, and do reporters care about threats to national security? What value should reporters place on a person's right to privacy? What purpose is served by the preoccupation with "investigative" reporting...
...impossible to fake a story from, say, the White House. Indeed, the fabrications of Cooke, Daly and Jones were quickly exposed, partly as a result of probing questions from other news organizations. Cooke and Daly were fired, and Jones was dropped from the Times's freelance roster. But the spate of trickery underscored a fundamental vulnerability...
Brown, winless with almost as many new faces on its roster as Harvard, was a very different team from the 7-0 pushover the Crimson met on its last visit to Rhode Island...
...right guard, Steinkuhler, is the quintessential Nebraska football player. Under the hometown column of the team roster, occasional entries from New Jersey and Texas, California, Colorado or even Connecticut are fairly obliterated in a hailstorm of small Nebraska towns. It reads like the appendix of an almanac: Plattsmouth, Scottsbluff, Bell wood, Fremont, Waterloo, Dix, Ponca, Shelby, Wahoo, Hildreth, Crete, Burr... Steinkuhler is from Burr...
Until approximately 15 years ago, the roster of Buildings and Grounds employees at Harvard was about as lily-white as the faculty. Under some internal and external pressure, the University moved to desegregate the Buildings and Grounds workforce. A result of this affirmative action desegregation was that, as of last year, the structural trades workforce had become about 30 percent Black. However, because of the long history of racial exclusivity is Harvard's B&G hiring, only one of these Black structural workers had accumulated over twenty years of seniority. The great majority of Black tradespeople at Harvard are relatively...