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...editorially] neutral," says Jo Groebel, director general of the Dortmund-based European Institute for the Media. Stripped of ideological or political bias, Metro lacks personality, insists Peter Cole, a professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield: "People don't refer to it as 'my Metro.'" As a basic, quick news service, it's only "like switching on the radio news on the hour," Cole says. Of course, the dumbing-down debate has been around as long as newspapers themselves. "Free papers reach a broad cross section of the population," points out Ingela Wadbring, researcher at the University of Gothenburg...
...abetting their suffering. Former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's "Sunshine Policy" of engagement with the North is denounced as a prop for Kim Jong Il's shaky regime. China, which treats refugees as illegal immigrants and repatriates them to face a nightmarish fate, is criticized for ignoring basic Geneva Convention obligations. The United Nations gets the harshest criticism. Becker spends a chapter cataloging the failures of U.N. aid agencies during North Korea's famine. Their chief mistake, he writes, was their failure to speak out in protest against Kim: "This undermined the credibility of those that accused...
...empty Hilles of most of its non-reserves books, when a large number of them could be shelved on the first floor in space-saving mobile stacks. Perhaps Hilles does not need to replicate Lamont, but Hilles should at least retain the most important services, such as reserves and basic circulating holdings, that Lamont offers to Yard and River residents...
...Committee (CLC)—they were mistaken. The difference in backgrounds between Blickstead and Nichols—Nichols had been elevated to VP from his position as Vice Chair of the Finance Committee (FiCom)—meant that the two differed widely in their specialties and their basic understandings of the role of the UC Vice President...
Imhof has kept the basic layout of the 268-seat Chili’s restaurant, but Hoffa’s Swiss Alps will have two bars, a fish tank, and a dance floor. Imhof said the restaurant will hire a DJ on Friday and Saturday nights...