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...turned out, Muslim sensibilities and the U.S.'s image were not the only casualties. Even after retracting the Koran claim, Newsweek found itself in the center of the storm. In a note to the magazine's readers last week, editor Mark Whitaker said the report had been based on information from "a knowledgeable U.S. government source." But, he went on, that source was no longer certain that he had read about the alleged incident in the still unreleased Pentagon report. As Whitaker explained, the source now said that "it might have been in other investigative documents or drafts...
Filmmakers are beginning to experiment once again with 3-D MOVIES. Back in 1953, when the new technology first took Hollywood by storm, it was seen as the savior of a slumping business...
...tourism, struggles to relaunch its tourism industry after the devastating tsunami of Dec. 26. The verifiable scientific knowledge on the effects of a rise in sea level is scanty. To the contrary, there is a school of thought that believes the sea-level rise doomsday scenario is a storm in a teacup. Sim I. Mohamed Secretary General Maldives Association of Tourism Industry Mal?, the Maldives...
...club at Harvard to do so—and elected its first female president the next year. Even under her watch, however, the Signet continued to face allegations of elitism and sexism. Poet Adrienne Rich was invited for the organization’s annual dinner in 1972, only to storm out after a speech, which, she told The Crimson, showed that the Signet was clearly “a male-dominated institution...
...first, it was easy to believe that the storm clouds gathering around House Majority Leader Tom DeLay signaled little more than another Washington tempest. After all, most Republicans reassured themselves, hardly anybody outside the Beltway or DeLay's district in Sugar Land, Texas, had even heard of the Congressman, much less cared about his inflammatory comments about judges or his overseas junkets that might have been paid for by lobbyists. But not any more. Letters and phone calls to congressional offices about DeLay have picked up sharply of late, an aide to the House GOP leadership says. The Majority Leader...