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Bloggers are proud to be the mainstream media's fact-checking gadflies, but last week they were the ones being checked. The New York Times reported that recent posts lambasting legislation against Wal-Mart came verbatim from the retailer's p.r. firm. The right-wing IOWA VOICE pleaded guilty but said he was sent "links to news articles [that] we would have found anyway." Lefty media monitor SNARKAHOLIC retorted that the bloggers were "too stupidly egotistical to know the difference between a press release and [an] exclusive source," while politiblog FIREDOGLAKE decried Wal-Mart's "corporate propaganda...
...support the HCCR’s proposals, stand up, raise your hand, and tell us why we should go there with you. And if you don’t, then let’s start again and craft a groundbreaking review of which we can be proud. Otherwise, the HCCR will be a beebee gun bullet shot out of a cannon...
...Leave it to Clooney, winner of the night?s first award, to address the question whether Hollywood was out of touch. He said that movie industry had addressed questions of civil rights and AIDS when the rest of America was afraid of them. ?I?m proud to be part of this Academy,? he said as the applause cresecendoed, ?proud to be part of the community, and proud to be out of touch.? He exited to cheers. If there were four strong men nearby, he would have been carried on their shoulders...
...bored with Prague's overwhelming period-film beauty? Just a 15-minute tram ride from the city center lies Zizkov, a district for those who fancy an atmosphere better suited to an indie film. Slightly seedy, bohemian and proud, Zizkov is a dynamic neighborhood with a blue-collar past and a middle-class, cosmopolitan future...
...revitalization of alumni participation in the Law School,” and that “history will remember this as his most important achievement.” Nichols said that his work with alumni was a highlight of his time at HLS. “I am particularly proud of the way we’ve re-engaged the alumni, making them active partners in the life of the Law School,” he said. Law School Dean Elena Kagan credited Nichols with “rais[ing] more funds than any single person in legal education...