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Americans may not follow the logic. Yet Abdi's words are more encouraging than the all-too-familiar ones scrawled across the wall of the former U.S. embassy. The pine-shaded, 27-acre compound has been occupied since the early '80s by Revolutionary Guards, who use part of it as a high school. Next to a mural of the Statue of Liberty, styled as a ghoulish skeleton, is the freshly painted warning: WE WILL MAKE AMERICA FACE A SEVERE DEFEAT...
Fears about editorial integrity have been Topic A at the Times since 1997, when Mark Willes, 58, the former General Mills cereal executive, became publisher and vowed to take a "bazooka" to the wall dividing "church" and "state"--the editorial operations and the business side. While journalists quaked, business types argued that it was a needed dose of cold realism for a paper whose profits had dropped and daily circulation had slipped from a peak of 1.24 million in 1991 to 1.1 million. Since Willes gave up the publisher's job to become chairman of Times Mirror Co. earlier this...
...scores of skeptics said there would never be a sustained market for a daily newspaper with no regional focus. Those nonbelievers are eating their words Wednesday with the news that USA Today now boasts the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in America, edging out longtime leader The Wall Street Journal. For many newspaper purists it was a sad day, as the flashy newcomer that first incorporated high-tech graphics and eye-popping front-page color knocked off a sophisticated gray patriarch of in-depth analytical journalism...
Noting that it was the 10-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rubin said media-government relations have deteriorated since the end of the Cold...
...public considers Republicans significantly better equipped than Democrats to make military decisions. In an election year, it clearly behooves congressional Republicans to hype up the weaknesses of the nation's defense. George W. may have some angry words for his dad for letting the Germans tear down that wall 10 years...