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Putting to use a public relations technique long used by private corporations, the Bush administration has made and distributed hundreds of its own news segments in the last four years. Public relations professionals, under false names, pose as journalists to “file” reports on everything from the success of the War on Terror to agricultural policy. The reports are filmed in such a way as to masquerade as perfectly normal parts of regular news programming; few, if any, viewers could possibly be expected to divine the government’s involvement in their production. Once completed...
...Such security issues may pose some of the trickiest challenges for the new government. Key leaders of the UIA, such as Abdelaziz Hakim of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, have made clear they want to conduct a wholesale purge of the security forces to weed out former Baathists. But in the past year Prime Minister Allawi has quietly reversed the U.S. policy of ?de-Baathificiation,? which he viewed as dangerous mistakes. A renewed push to purge former Baathists could create further tensions that would play into the hands of the insurgency...
...politicians, and Harvard students should be mindful of the fact that they have this privilege. Audience members must be courteous to speakers and allow them to talk without interjections. This, of course, does not mean that when given the chance to grill speakers, students should be deferential. They should pose difficult questions, but they should do so in a way that is both strong and respectful...
...several states, including Illinois, New Jersey, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin, are testing the sequential method. Most of those departments are also making their lineups "double blind": the officer in charge does not know who the alleged culprit is and thus cannot subconsciously influence the witness. That can pose a problem in small towns, where the officers usually know everyone, including the suspect. Minneapolis police captain Richard Stanek's solution is to put mug shots on a laptop computer and allow the witness to view them privately. Iowa State University psychology professor Gary Wells, who has been advocating sequential...
...Bulldogs, up first at 1 p.m. tomorrow, pose a serious challenge, despite finishing in a distant fourth place behind the Big Three in the regular season standings, appearing in their first-ever ECAC semifinals, and having beaten the Crimson only seven times in 56 all-time meetings...