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...also the objective that motivates any journalist. A reporter’s best work is not fed to them through press releases. It stems from their desire to answer their own questions, such as why some schools systems fail and others succeed, or why everybody is buying an iPod. A good journalist presents a new angle to a problem that some never knew existed...
Although South African President Thabo Mbeki has another four years left in office, the issue of who should succeed him flared up last week. The chatter came after the Durban High Court convicted Schabir Shaik, a friend and financial adviser to Deputy President Jacob Zuma, on fraud and corruption charges. After a riveting eight-month trial and a three-day verdict broadcast live on television and radio, Judge Hillary Squires found Shaik guilty on all three charges against him. Squires announced Shaik had paid some $180,000 to Zuma in bribes between 1995 and 2001 in order to keep...
...leader of the Christian Democrats is Angela Merkel, who, as a protégé of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, is known to be a tough political fighter, if lacking in Schröder's campaign experience. Should her party succeed in September, Merkel, 50, a former physics professor who was raised in East Germany, would become Germany's first female Chancellor. She has said her immediate focus would be domestic issues, particularly the economy. (She supports loosening job-protection laws, overhauling pensions and curbing the power of trade unions.) But on international affairs, she is likely to be somewhat friendlier...
...biggest danger is that in the process, the radicals will succeed in igniting simmering ethnic and religious tensions-and mirror the divisions already apparent outside the university walls. Sectarian groups were barred from running for student-union elections earlier this year, but many simply set up parallel "committees" that carry greater clout than the elected unions. At Mustansiriya University, there are two "committees" representing Shi'ites-radical cleric al-Sadr is particularly popular-and a third is backed by Sunni students. All three routinely celebrate religious events on campus, plaster walls with posters depicting their respective religious leaders and conduct...
...scenes will ring true to anyone who has wondered how much reality a celebrity reality show can actually reveal. It's hard to imagine Martha Stewart relinquishing control of her pruning shears, let alone her public image. It's a delicate act, though; these shows succeed by offering at least the illusion of access and authenticity. Fans want to feel the celebrities have earned redemption by abasing and laughing at themselves; we need to look down on them before we return them to their pedestals...