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...content to go with local music-tie ins alone, 20th Century Fox announced plans last week to open Fox TV Studios France, a Paris-based production studio that will serve as the European outpost for expanding the studio's presence with local productions. It's only a matter of time before a French Prison Break is hatched, probably starring Larage...
...Island, U.S. Kinsley should ask why people visit blogs for information instead of getting their news from larger, mainstream media like newspapers. It is because organizations lose credibility when they make judgments that are wrong. I got the impression that Kinsley wants journalists to be above accountability, that no matter what they print they are above it all. But the marketplace decides which products survive and which don't. William Rolston Vancouver Torture on Trial Ron Suskind's viewpoint [Sept. 18] on the CIA torture of detained al-Qaeda operatives made clear that information obtained through torture or physical abuse...
...these non-local students are being called in, and, honestly, if I were them, I would be just as upset as they are,” she says. “I don’t think Massachusetts should put those claims on students.” A MATTER OF JUSTICE?Yiyang “Yaya” Wu ’07 was summoned for jury duty in the summer of 2004. She says she waited four hours at the courthouse and was sent home without getting an interview. Since then, she has also been summoned for jury duty...
...stopped the White House from trumpeting the changes as hugely significant and leading religious conservatives to believe they were highly consequential. Christian conservatives trusted President Bush. After two years in the White House, I had come to realize that regardless of where the President's heart lay on the matter, the back-office Republican political machine was able to take Evangelicals for granted--indeed, often viewed them with undisguised contempt--and still get their votes. G.O.P. operatives trusted that Christian conservatives would see the President more as their Pastor in Chief than anything else. Bush had long used the podium...
...petition signed by “thousands” of other women attesting to having had an abortion. It tries to be harrowing, introspective, and devastating, but mostly comes across as silly and intellectually incoherent. The most widely deployed rationale among pro-choicers justifies abortion as a private matter, a kind of tragic decision of women affecting their bodies and their lives, with which an overzealous, Puritanical, and totalitarian government must not interfere. Yet by airing all this laundry, Ms. Magazine denies the very consciousness it tries to create. It ostensibly wishes to grant women privacy, yet publicly broadcasts...