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Duranty’s prize has long been the subject of intense controversy. Last spring the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association (UCCLA) initiated a campaign to urge its revocation by the Pulitzer Prize Board. After six months of consideration, the board decided on Nov. 21 not to rescind the prize. It concluded that the pieces in question, while they fell well below “today’s standards for foreign reporting,” showed “no clear and convincing evidence of deliberate deception...
...state should rescind this arcane restriction and not discriminate against college-aged journalists. College papers might not “employ” their reporters with monetary compensation, but they can certainly be just as hard working and dedicated as full-time reporters at other media sources, working 40 hours or more a week for their student newspaper. It is wrong of the Massachusetts State Police to arbitrarily discriminate between legitimate publications just because some are student-run and some are run by full-time employees...
...doesn't Congress rescind this insidious tax break for manufacturing filthy fuels that pollute our air and scar our land? Our use of 19th century energy sources that damage our environment is a true embarrassment. DIANE MARIE ANGER Boca Raton...
When Matthews asked the Reverend how he would pay for his nationalized health care plan, Sharpton slammed the Bush tax cut and promised to rescind it—but offered no tangible proposal for a funding source...
...doesn't Bush take the plunge on taxes? A matter of honor, say those familiar with the President's thinking--who also acknowledge that if he did rescind some of the tax cuts, it would raise Bush's poll ratings, gut the opposition and perhaps even guarantee his re-election. But Bush won't do it, I am told, because it would undermine all the Republicans in Congress who voted for the tax cuts and because it is precisely the sort of thing Clinton would do--and did do in 1993 when he walked away from his BTU tax proposal...