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...years. About 15 percent of them had previously had an induced abortion. Every two years, the women were asked two questions: if they had an induced abortion and if they had developed breast cancer. The 10 years’ worth of data showed no connection between the two. Leslie Bernstein, a professor at the University of Southern California, has produced nearly identical results with three studies of her own. She said that Michels’ findings are critically important, regardless of one’s personal views of abortion. “The issue is, do you promulgate bad interpretations...
...that I was trying to encourage the Woodward and Bernstein model of muckraking in a land with no First Amendment and no Bill of Rights. Last year, the Committee to Protect Journalists rated Syria ninth on its list of the ten most censored countries. And many in Lebanon blame Syria for the assassination of Lebanese journalists. Nevertheless, there is a fledgling private press in Syria, and although local reporters learn to steer clear of sensitive subjects, there is still room for a limited form of real journalism. Syria Today, the independent English-language magazine where I teach, has published articles...
...Bernstein: "I think what Bob means is that ordinarily, what was the procedure...
...sure how much of this sunk in with my students. One of their main concerns was that Woodward and Bernstein rarely stopped to eat. (My guys couldn't even sit through the whole film without a cigarette break.) But I was surprised by how they intuitively understood the political background behind the Watergate investigation. Not that many had heard of Watergate or the Nixon tapes, or understood the job of the Attorney General. What they understood, very clearly, was that the President of the United States had used the FBI and the CIA to spy on the opposition and stay...
...United States doesn't do the exact same thing." After all the revelations about abuses of power that have occurred in the name of the War on Terror - kidnappings, torture, illegal wiretapping, and invading a country to neutralize a non-existent WMD threat - even the would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins of the Arab world don't believe that we live up to our own Woodward and Bernstein standards anymore...