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...Geography of Buzz: Art, Culture and the Social Milieu in Los Angeles and New York Elizabeth Currid, University of Southern California and Sarah Williams, Columbia University 51 pages...
...cool. In this study, Currid and Williams take aim at that adage. Surveying 300,000 snapshots taken by the photo agency Getty Images at more than 6,000 parties, openings and premieres in 2006 and 2007, the authors attempt to map the cultural epicenters of Los Angeles and New York. Their findings are somewhat surprising: The buzziest neighborhoods aren't blossoming ones like the Lower East Side or Los Feliz, but rather the stalwarts on every basic tourist itinerary: Times Square, Broadway, or Rockefeller Center in the Big Apple, and Beverly Hills and Hollywood in L.A. These locales stay...
Ultimately, the final decision about the fate of The Globe rests with its unions. The prospect of considerable wage cuts is an unfortunate reality for union members to confront, but the terms offered by The New York Times Co. are undeniably preferable to the total loss of jobs and wages that would accompany the closure of the newspaper. The unions should consider their own immediate and long-term interests, as well as those of their paper, and be willing to accept substantial cuts. Print journalism faces a wide range of challenges in today’s changing media environment...
...This is an incredibly troubling selection that contradicts the Administration's assurances that the census process would not be used to advance an ulterior political agenda." - Representative Darrell Issa (New York Times, April...
...that occurred during the early years of Fujimori's authoritarian rule. The abuses "were committed as part of a broad, systematic policy of executions and forced disappearances that [Fujimori] ordered and carried out through intelligence services," charges Maria McFarland, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, based in New York City, who has followed the case from the start. "These cases are a 'for example' of what happened, which is not only a message to the families in these cases but all cases...