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...there's plenty to criticize about the project too: the Panorama took nine months and more than 150 people to produce. Only seven of them were full-time staff members. Reporters didn't have word limits. The Bay Bridge investigation was funded by outside sources (San Francisco Public Press and Spot.us). None of the sports section's 16 pages contain game scores; eight of them are filled by a Stephen King essay on the World Series. Most of the paper went to press weeks before it came out, making it a poor source for breaking news. (The front section...
...looking for that. They wanted the full-color comics, the hilarious account of a California liberal's first NASCAR race and an article titled "Are Michelle Obama's Eyebrows Too Angry-Seeming?" They wanted something well written, insightful and fun. Something that could handle in-depth investigations, thousand-word essays and an article on how to make moonshine...
...decisions seem to contradict each other, they complain, and his policies are often ideologically schizophrenic. "For the first two years of his presidency, Sarkozy convinced French public opinion that all he had to do was announce reform for it to be as good as done - that his word and desired results were one and the same," says Denis Muzet, president of Médiascopie, a public-opinion research institute in Paris. "Since last January, however, people have not only begun complaining it's all gesticulation with little real result, but that the reforms themselves are clashing in nature, illegible...
...tough sledding for the non-Ph.D. reader. Malloch, who has held positions at the U.N., the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the State Department, writes with passion in an ambitiously academic style. He examines the history of the concept of thrift--the root of the word is an Old Norse verb meaning "to thrive"--citing the contributions of the Scots and Calvinists. Malloch, like Farrell, considers frugality a moral imperative as well as an economic necessity. "Thrift is positive, wise, prudential, intelligent, grateful and always self-controlled," he writes...
Karr is the last person who would call her story inspirational--you can almost hear her dry snort at the word--but ultimately, she can't deny it. Lit chronicles her finding first her higher power, then cautiously calling that God and finally embracing Catholicism. She adopts prayer grudgingly and often hilariously ("I'll keep at this perfunctory gratitude the way a stout girl drinks diet sodas while stuffing her face with cheese fries") but is so convincing of her need for it that even an atheist would have trouble arguing her out of her Sunday pilgrimages...