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Freshman centerfielder and San Diego native Matt Vance, making his Southern California homecoming, thrilled a personal cheering section among a smattering of spectators with three of the Crimson’s 14 hits...
Here's how the story unfolded. The inflammatory reference to the alleged toilet incident amounted to only a few words in an 11-sentence item in Newsweek's front-of-the-book "Periscope" section, in the issue that hit newsstands May 2. For more than two years, other news outlets had reported Guantánamo detainees' claims that U.S. guards had thrown the Koran to the floor and even tossed it into a latrine. But the Newsweek item went further by asserting that a Pentagon report would substantiate the alleged toilet incident as well as another in which a prisoner...
...thing, Newsweek's "Periscope" section, which features newsy tidbits, is scrutinized less closely than the rest of the magazine. Whitaker conceded last week that because those items are short and often develop late in the week, "there are one or two layers of editing and review that are not there," compared with articles elsewhere in the magazine. That's no excuse, says Daniel Okrent, who just ended an 18-month stint as "public editor"--basically, the internal critic--of the New York Times. "It doesn't say at the top of that page 'Stuff that we didn't check...
When we were sophomores and just getting the hang of the college thing, President Bush invaded Iraq. Most of us stood in the yard again, this time in protest, wondering why we were being led into a war that would turn a vast section of the world against us. If those movies had taught us anything, it was that war is only necessary when there was a direct threat; we didn’t see how 9/11 terrorists had anything to do with the Iraqis, save the fact that they shared a religion...
...sure, Capp’s election was legitimate under the council’s current bylaws. Under section 42.2 of the bylaws, “If the office of the Vice President…becomes permanently vacant, then the council will elect a successor at the next full council meeting.” That rule must change. It is simply inappropriate that the 2004-2005 membership of the council was able to choose Nichols’ successor without a poll of the student body or, at the very least, time for students’ to consider the candidates...