Word: write
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shout-out to a small and oft-ignored subset of my readers. I don’t mean residents of Pfoho or my aunts down in New Jersey, though I’m glad they’re reading too. Instead, I want to acknowledge my as-of-this-writing-unborn grandchildren. I want to do this because it occurred to me recently that some day, as my distant kin are sitting in their dorm rooms in Allston looking out onto their gorgeous new student center (or, heaven forbid, envying it from somewhere down in New Haven), they might...
...vote at editorial meetings. However, according to our building-wide policies, news writers are not allowed to participate in debate or vote at meetings in which the subjects they cover are being discussed. Any writer who engages in debate or a vote on a particular subject can never write on that topic again, regardless of whether it falls within his or her beat...
...though the topics that the editorial board chooses to write about are often taken from the pages of our newspaper, it is the editorial chairs, and not the news executives, who put items on the editorial board’s agenda...
...wall, though preventing bias based on the editorial board’s positions, does not rule out the potential bias emanating from individual reporters’ personal opinions. Two weeks from now in this space, William C. Marra ‘07, The Crimson’s president, will write about the paper’s conflict of interest policies and on the concept of ‘objectivity’ in journalism...
...officials of the Qing Empire began visiting America in the 1860s, some kept diaries that expressed what now seem like eerily familiar opinions. In their book Land Without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present, historians R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee write that during the first period of interaction, from 1841 to around 1900, China's view of the U.S. was a mixture of wonder and fear. Woken from torpid indifference to the outside world by humiliating defeats in the Opium Wars, the Qing mandarins decided China must strengthen itself by observing...