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...took the story to the Pentagon for confirmation and assumed he had it when the Pentagon did not raise objections to the Koran allegation. The Defense Department's silence, however, didn't amount to confirmation. "There's a famous scene in the book All the President's Men," says Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and former chief congressional correspondent for Newsweek. "Bernstein says to a source, 'If I count to whatever, and you stay on the phone and don't say anything, then I know the story is right.' Well, that's the story Woodward...
...that the filibuster invokes, its uses have often been much darker. It was, for instance, one of the major means by which white segregationists blocked civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Republicans note that Democrats had a different view of delaying tactics when they were running the Senate. Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa has lately been one of the most outspoken defenders of the minority's right to filibuster, but in early 1995, he argued, "There is no reform more important to this country and to this body than slaying the dinosaur called the filibuster...
...advertisers will risk indirect association with a news organization that the State Department accuses of having a "clear pattern of false and inflammatory reporting" that endangers the lives of Americans, particularly U.S. personnel in Iraq. "There is no baggage heavier than anything that is related to 9/11," says Tom Wolzien, a media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in New York City. "Advertisers would be very careful in figuring out what the implications are to their product." Says Steve Tatham, author of a forthcoming book on Arab media reporting from Iraq: "People associate al-Jazeera with anti-Western sentiment." It doesn...
...Greg Zielinski rebelled against the preppies of Fairfield, Conn., and came to West Point to be the toughest infantryman he could be. Tom Pae came from Newark, Calif., just east of San Francisco, as the son of Korean artists, to better himself and give back to his family's adopted country as a soldier and a leader. Tuscon native Kristen Beyer knew nothing about the army and entered West Point mainly to swim for its Division I team, but she stayed to pursue a new dream of flying Blackhawk helicopters...
...Tom, Kristen and Greg shared their lives at West Point and their thoughts about what lies ahead with a remarkable openness and generosity. The latter is especially remarkable since the West Point workweek is a grueling mixture of academic instruction, military training, and physical fitness. Yet by this point, in their fourth year, the three have earned free hours in the day and other privileges - Kristen has a car she takes into town with her friends, Greg visits old high school buddies in Boston on the weekends, Tom finds his way to New York City with classmates when he gets...