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Most blogs, to put it mildly, reflect just how bad writing would be without editors. Thousands of bloggers think, for reasons wholly unknown, that we care about what they had for breakfast or the saga of their leaking refrigerators. Conventional journalists, like Alex Beam in the Boston Globe, have seized on these slice-of-life bloggers to condemn the whole movement as justification of their own privileged status as those few who should be trusted to wield the pen in a public forum. Beam is half right—the world needs thrice daily updates on somebody?...
...public outcry forces the politicians to take a militant stance," says a French antiterrorism official, "we could find information being blocked in the administrative pipes between the two nations." Another unknown is whether the German government, also queasy about the death penalty, will turn over evidence supporting the charge that Moussaoui received money transfers from an alleged al-Qaeda paymaster in Hamburg...
...three years ago in Rome of another labor ministry consultant, Massimo D'Antona. The profiles of the victims are strikingly similar: both men divided their time between the professor's lectern and the government negotiating table; both were well-known and respected within government and academic circles but virtually unknown to the general public. "Easy targets," noted Donatella Della Porta, a terrorist expert at the University of Florence. Police even believe the same pistol was used to kill both...
...them out; workers from Wang's factory joined in to keep the siege going. Recently, both factories were shut down. Shi Jian, the ceramics factory workers' leader, went into hiding after receiving threats to his life. In February 1999, he returned home to visit his nine-year-old son. Unknown assailants savagely beat him, fracturing his skull with steel bars and plunging knives into both legs. Today a jagged red scar encircles his head like a crown. That attack broke the labor movement in Henan. Today, just one factory in the province remains occupied by workers...
...that sweet-smell year 1957, after a combined 130 seasons in New York, the Dodgers and Giants both left town. (I'm pleased to say that Phyllis Adams and Davie Lerner are still in full flourish; and though Buck Zuckerman has left this earth for parties unknown, his son has made a nice name for himself: Buck Henry...