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...merchants seems to reflect the fact that the show will remain focused on appealing to Harvard audiences. However, ever since the show ended a long hiatus and was re-launched in 2003, it has been part of a growing national phenomenon: college-made soap operas. An October edition of Newsweek??s “Periscope” section profiled “Ivory Tower” alongside similar shows at Boston University and the University of North Carolina. The show’s website has also received hits and downloads from people as far away as Texas...
...wide-ranging talk focused on the progressive efforts by city lawmakers to confront civic issues, such as education reform, homelessness, and underfunded public transportation. Since a landslide victory last May catapulted Villaraigosa into Los Angeles’ City Hall—and onto the cover of Newsweek??he has levied strong criticism against the city’s teachers unions and school board members. Last night, he emphasized the importance of improving local education in solving civic problems faced by Los Angeles and other major urban areas. Villaraigosa, whose wife is a teacher, said that...
...Fund this summer, it took advantage of an offer to return its shares to the fund in exchange for a proportional amount of the net assets comprising the fund’s portfolio. But many smaller shareholders declined because they were not registered to trade the South Korean securities, Newsweek??s Allan Sloan theorizes...
...feelings and well being of those affected by their stories. The First Amendment and freedom of speech notwithstanding, a journalist needs to weigh his or her zeal to right what is wrong with the world against the unintended victims of their coverage. The recent riots caused by Newsweek??s article about desecrating the Quran is a great example of insensitive reporting based on “unnamed sources...
...Newsweek??s use of an anonymous source, we agree that transparency is always the best policy—but it is not always a feasible one. Sources cannot always be expected to go on the record, particularly when they come forward with the most damning or unpopular information. And it is not as though the media is unaccountable for what it prints—as in this case, Newsweek has come under scrutiny and has now set the record straight. The irony, of course, that the Bush administration—who took us to war based...