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...Fresh Angle Alan Rusbridger, editor of Britain's Guardian newspaper, takes a different view. Like VG in Norway, the Guardian was among the first British papers to recognize the Internet as the only portal in the storm that was buffeting traditional newspapers. Its own title wasn't spared. The Guardian's circulation was 516,000 in 1986; last year, it was down to around 351,000 copies. Unlike VG, however, the Guardian has bet its building that the future lies in so-called media integration - the same single staff for newsprint, Internet and the video and audio reportage that...
Investor sentiment was shaken over the holiday weekend by news that Japan's economy shrank at an annualized rate of almost 13% in the latest quarter. Economic news from virtually every corner of the world is reinforcing the notion that this economic storm knows no bounds, and may be gaining fury...
...Columbia was able to convert easy buckets and set up its press. During one three-minute stretch early on, the Crimson turned the ball over five times.When the first-half buzzer sounded and Harvard headed to the locker room down just six, it seemed to have weathered a storm of its own making.“Usually when we have a game like this, we’re down and there’s no emotion,” co-captain Emily Tay said. “But in the locker room, it was very positive, we were ready...
...waves of change and tempests of progress that storm through more cosmopolitan places register in Springfield as the merest ripples and breezes. If this isn't a place that time forgot, it is certainly a place that occasionally slips time's mind. The dominant feature of the skyline is the Hilton tower, 30 stories high. It was built during the Nixon administration, and still feels like a hotel where Howard Hughes might be padding around with Kleenex boxes on his feet up on the top floor. (See video of what it is like to be Mr. Lincoln...
...able to pass out of eighth grade before they became too old to start high school. Some have been thrown out of two or three middle schools, and many served time in juvenile detention for a colorful range of offenses. Others simply lost a year as orphans of the storm, Katrina kids mishandled by overwhelmed officials in Houston, Atlanta, or Arkansas who fell behind and never caught up. They’ve all been shuffled around, victims of the system who did not get the support they needed at some critical point in their development...