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...that implies that they're re-inventing the journalistic wheel. "To have good sourcing you have to maintain relationships," says one. And as for letting a master narrative guide one's writing, there are few narratives more over-arching than the presumption that most mainstream journalists are corrupt, weak-willed shills who hobnob with sources at cocktail parties and protect the establishment at the cost of our basic rights. Except, that is, for the new master narrative: empowered netizens speaking brave and uncomfortable truths to power...
...human-rights campaigner; in England. In 1945, Marreco was recruited to the small British legal team prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. During his year at the trial, Marreco became acquainted with the surviving Nazi leaders-including Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess-and was stunned by the weak defenses they offered for their terrible crimes. In the 1960s, Marreco helped found Amnesty International, and in 1968 published a scathing report for the organization on the maltreatment of political prisoners by Greece's military junta...
...exposing themselves to food all the time. If they were Mischel's kids, they would be sitting with the cookie in the room every day--and not just any cookie but one rich in fat and professionally baked to perfection. Actually, both chefs were once just like Mischel's weak-willed subjects. In Goin's first restaurant job, she would stand in the walk-in and eat so much ice cream with strawberries that she couldn't touch dinner. De Laurentiis was even worse. As a student at Le Cordon Bleu Paris, she often ate only what she cooked. "Some...
...newest films she's much more fun to watch as the carnivorous Miranda than as Prairie's fading, wistful rustic Yolanda. Does the sheer longevity of her career make it hard for us to believe anymore that she can play anyone weak or pathetic? Or is it that she plays Yolanda's aging, slightly desperate flirt, complete with old-lady cleavage, so well it makes us uncomfortable...
Researchers realized decades ago that high blood pressure is a cardiovascular danger signal. They don't understand the exact mechanism yet, but physicians think elevated pressure puts a strain on blood vessels, causing them to tear or develop weak areas where plaque can gain an easy foothold. Hypertension (to use the technical term) can also force small blood vessels to burst like an overstressed garden hose; if that happens in the brain, it's called a stroke--the other major cardiovascular killer besides heart attack...