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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...
...We’ve been static around tenth place in the EISA for many, many years,” men’s Nordic captain Russ Leino said. “[Our goal is] to inch up a few places over the next couple years...On the long term, I think [Nordic coach] Peter [Graves] and the rest of the coaching staff want to return Harvard to glory days...