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...public, Jordan responded to his critics, did not need CNN to prove that Saddam was a monster: "Iraq's human-rights record and the brutality of the Saddam Hussein regime were well known." But CNN's decisions affected more than its coverage of one regime. They confirmed the popular suspicion that there is one story for insiders and another one for regular suckers - the journalistic equivalent of Martha Stewart and ImClone. Too many Americans already live in parallel universes, one controlled by a vast right-wing conspiracy, another in which Vincent Foster was murdered. In even more polarized and desperate...
...don’t think that nervous twitches and permanent suspicion are a health hazard. You could even argue that Assassins is a health benefit by motivating competitors to be in top shape. I do think that it’s safe to say that Assassins is a sport in the truest sense, since in the end it’s all a game...
...same report also noted: “In August [2001], a Cuban spokesman revealed that Sinn Fein’s official representative for Cuba and Latin America, Niall Connolly, who was one of three Irish Republican Army members arrested in Colombia on suspicion of providing explosives training to the FARC, had been based in Cuba for five years.” Connolly had been on the payroll of the island’s Communist party...
...without consulting the Faculty committee—which was created solely for the purpose of consultation on the new structure—are not positive. In one foul swoop, Summers and Kirby have ensured that future Faculty committees will look at them with distrust, a professional relationship of suspicion that benefits no one. Summers and Kirby have shown through their actions that they obviously do not care about the thoughts of Faculty and students, and have just set a precedent for constant skepticism from the entire undergraduate community...
...student life. On the record, they sing the praises of the high quality of student activities like canaries on speed. But their Secret Agenda implies otherwise, as does their elimination of the dean in charge of student life. They’re not talking, and silence begs suspicion...