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...theories on poverty, society and classism. William Julius Wilson, the world’s authority on race and poverty is Jenn’s biggest fan. Somehow, through her social studies driven forays into K-School culture, Jenn has impressed the likes of Rick Kaplan (past president of CNN) and Chris Matthews (Hardball guru...
...reduce prices a little more to entice spending? Insisting consumers dig deeper into their savings is not exactly fair—not at a time of rising unemployment and uncertain futures. Not only is it unfair, it’s also just plain unlikely. According to a highly unscientific CNN “Quickvote,” only 17 percent of consumers plan to spend more than they did last year, while 41 percent plan to spend less...
...covering a war in Afghanistan is brutal? Try battling the Wall Street Journal's Tunku Varadarajan. In a column on female war correspondents, CNN's CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR is "second-rate," parachuting into war zones "kitted out in flak jackets"; MSNBC's ASHLEIGH BANFIELD is undergoing "a complex learning process" on air, starring in the story by dyeing her blond hair brown. "Despicable!" Banfield says, comparing talk of her looks and $400 titanium-framed glasses to how the Taliban treats Afghan women. At least when Dan Rather wrapped himself in mufti to report from Afghanistan, he only had to live down...
...Edward Linenthal, author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. "The sun isn't quite right. It's a little darker than it should be when you look at it." And in the strange half-light, people react to the same events in opposite ways. Bars show CNN instead of ESPN because patrons want the latest news, but a family doctor in a Chicago suburb cancels her subscription to the New York Times because the relentless coverage of fear and threats was taking a toll on her. Peace Corps applications are up 72% in San Francisco, even...
Besides, figures like him are amusing, and even useful, to have around to visibly puncture the sanctimonious grandstanding of public figures. During the Gulf War, in a live CNN appearance alongside Charlton Heston, Hitchens asked the actor and NRA president to identify the countries that bordered Iraq. Stumped after naming three, Heston complained that Hitchens was wasting the nation’s time by “giving a high school geography lesson...