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...case, the American public needs to be better informed about who is controlling the sources of information that inform their daily reality. Democracy cannot function with passive citizens contented by infotainment that is propagated by media giants to further themselves and their profits. It is impossible to request that Time Warner, et al., be concerned with something other than profits--that's what a corporation is for. Rather, it is necessary that the U.S. government ensures through anti-trust initiatives the independent stewardship of the networks and the maintenance of a free press so that democracy itself is not stifled...
Thernstrom writes, "Trang [Ho] told her sister she had asked...officials to change rooms [during last year], but the request was denied...
...Liem said that such a request for a room transfer was "not true...
Harvard initially balked at the request but eventually granted the team the right to play at the stadium, albeit with several conditions, according to Patriots officials...
Morris urged Clinton to use his Saturday radio address, which has become a kind of toughlove matinee, to come out in favor of the Wisconsin plan before Dole could assail him for opposing it--never mind that Wisconsin hadn't sent in the whole request, and no one had fully reviewed it. In the White House this kind of move has a name: "prebuttal." Because the Wisconsin plan includes substantial spending for child care, health and job training, the White House was able to claim that it is much closer to Clinton's current welfare proposals than to the Republican...