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...earthy llanero, or Venezuelan plainsman, can be a maddening and bullying ideologue. (As far as the rest of the world is concerned, so was Bush.) And so are all the other anti-U.S. strongmen out there, from North Korea to Iran, with whom Obama believes he should grit his teeth and engage in the interest of U.S. security. To avoid doing in Latin America what he deems sensible in the Middle East and Asia would repeat Washington's careless habit of treating the continent in ways that helped give rise to the Castros and Chávezes...
Jackson immediately contacted Justin Smith, editor-in-chief of The Plainsman, Auburn University’s weekly newspaper. Smith, a Managerial Information Systems major, began a manhunt to locate Fritz-Jenkins. After investigating in the university’s journalism department, Smith learned that the alleged speech-thief had graduated last spring and moved to Birmingham. “She took a course on feature writing and submitted ‘Bring On the Cheesecake’ to the class,” Smith says. According to Smith, the professor of the class suggested Fritz-Jenkins submit the stolen work...
...Jackson and is implementing plans to prevent such an incident from occurring again. “We’re also looking at a disclaimer that will be published in each edition of The Circle. It would assume the honesty of the contributors,” she told The Plainsman in an interview. “Hopefully, it will deter students from submitting plagiarized work...
...kind of bad star trip tabloid journalism has made all too familiar to modern audiences. The trouble for him is that the founding of the Betty Ford Clinic is over a century in the future. The trouble for us is that The Plainsman, in which Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur played these figures in accordance with the conventions of their time--as protagonists in something pretty close to a screwball comedy--is 60 years in the past. In other words Wild Bill was born too soon for professional help, and we, it seems, were born too late for the more...
While the furor grew last week, the student newspaper the Plainsman proposed its solution to the crisis: "No more long-winded analyses on the controversy. Dr. Funderburk, for the good of Auburn University, please resign." But President Funderburk, saying he is indeed acting for the good of the university, insists that he will stay...