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...between small farmers and large ranchers in Wyoming, and the year Homer Plessy sat in the wrong seat on a train and prompted a landmark Supreme Court case. These are things that debaters might know because they can never tell when their opponents will bring up the way mass media affected rebellions in the West, or why the Supreme Court isn’t a reliable source for expanding nuclear disarmament...
While Flyby may feel slighted by the media snub, it will look on eagerly as the Radcliffe women continue their quest for collegiate glory...
What do you think of the Obama Administration's approach to the media? Everybody in the White House tries to manage us. There's always the spin. When Kennedy came in, which was the first year I started covering the White House, there was something called "managed news." And through the years it has been perfected...
What did you think about the White House press secretary's announcement that the Obama Administration was going to adopt a sort of "take no prisoners" approach to pundits and media critics - that they plan on singling them out specifically? Not more than any other President. Nobody likes criticism, and nobody likes to feel attacked, of course. But I think it behooves all Administrations to tell the truth as much as they can, to bring the people with them. You cannot have a democracy without informed people. It shouldn't be a shock when the public finally learns things...
...arrest of 32-year-old French-Algerian Adlène Hicheur, who holds a doctorate in particle physics. Hicheur was nabbed after intelligence officials intercepted encoded e-mails he sent to AQIM members offering to plan terrorist strikes in France. Reports in the French and British media initially focused on Hicheur's scientific work at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which has a gigantic particle collider straddling the France-Switzerland border. Many reports suggested that Hicheur had either planned an attack on the installation or had sought to pass information or material to AQIM so that jihadis could...