Word: russ
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Your story showed how the malfeasance of our congressional leaders and the greed of business executives have turned the American Dream into the American Nightmare. Shame on them! DEBORAH RUSS Aurora, Colo...
Blogs act like a lens, focusing attention on an issue until it catches fire, but they can also break stories. On April 21, a 34-year-old blogger and writer from Arizona named Russ Kick posted photographs of coffins containing the bodies of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Columbia astronauts. The military zealously guards images of service members in coffins, but Kick pried the photos free with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. "I read the news constantly," says Kick, "and when I see a story about the government refusing to release public documents, I automatically...
...when they're alert and thinking and making decisions. Blogs are fresh and often seem to be miles ahead of the mainstream news. Bloggers put up new stuff every day, all day, and there are thousands of them. How are you going to keep anything secret from a thousand Russ Kicks? Blogs have voice and personality. They're human. They come to us not from some mediagenic anchorbot on an air-conditioned sound stage, but from an individual. They represent--no, they are--the voice of the little...
Joining the Republican bloc were Senators Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, both of Wisconsin, as well as Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, the committee’s ranking member...
...blazered schoolgirl from St. Katherine’s who spends the whole trip listening to her iPod and texting friends. And there’s the gregarious driver who now greets me as “one of those bloody New Yorkers who won’t give old Russ a break...