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Along with college pal Lee E. Sheehy '73, Rowe joined Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr.'s (D-N.C.) committee to investigate President Richard M. Nixon's "dirty tricks" and secret slush funds...
Last Friday night, area music fans braved below-freezing temperatures, trudging through slush and snow to witness the return of a local legend. Juliana Hatfield was back with a full band for the first time in two years, kicking off the U.S. leg of a tour in support of her new EP Please Do Not Disturb. Along with a cold picked up last week in Australia, Hatfield seemed slightly ill at ease--perhaps with the prospect of a national tour looming ahead, a new band member's aggressive stage presence (red-jumpsuited bassist Mike Welsh) or the daunting prospect...
After the first fluffy snowfall wears out its welcome and turns into filthy brown slush piled on the side of street corners, get ready to contend with frozen hands, chapped lips, wet feet, biting winds, and days with only a couple of seconds of sunlight...
...Subscription fees] are going into a slush fund to fight me," Gartner said, noting that the fees made up a large portion of the $115,000 in surplus the Daily has earned on average over each of the last five years...
...working this summer at the Forward, a national Jewish weekly based in Manhattan. While the paper prides itself on serious reporting--and I haven't heard of a slush fund to pay willing eye-witnesses to make up stories for us--the reach of the tabloids is unavoidable. No newspaper, no matter how respectable, can escape the popular expectation of "scandal exposed" that the tabloids have trademarked. If readers don't get infamy uncovered for their buck, they'll stop buying the paper. As a result, even the best papers have responded as any good capitalist ventures would--they have...