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| Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Fixing what's broken |
| Americans watched in horror as a great city, New Orleans, descended into chaos. Victims without food, water, or shelter; weeping mothers; sick children; dead bodies rotting on the flooded streets; hoodlums shooting at rescue helicopters; old people and children left alone and unattended--all this in a nightmare scenario where the suffering was disproportionately borne by poor African-Americans. |
| Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:00:00 EST John Leo: A critique on Katrina |
| I thought news coverage of Katrina was exceptionally good under difficult circumstances. The sight of TV reporters conducting snarling interviews with incompetent officials was more ambiguous. "The Rebellion of the Talking Heads" was the headline on Jack Shafer's good media column on Slate. The officials fully earned the snarls, but TV reporters aren't hired to be the voice of an outraged nation. Interviews with stonewalling politicians should be done the way Brian Williams did them on NBC, by showing the officials up with polite and persistent questions they wouldn't or couldn't answer. "I don't think the formula for the press to recover its lost credibility is getting up on a soapbox and making speeches," said Robert Zelnick, chairman of the journalism department at Boston University. |
| Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:00:00 EST Is Advanced Placement too good to be true? |
| If Neil Panchal had known last year what he was in for, he might have tried to get a little more sleep. Panchal, who recently started 12th grade at Barrington High School outside Chicago, is a man on a college admissions mission: He took his first Advanced Placement course as a sophomore, aced the U.S. History exam, and set his sights on an elite school. Last year, when he saw his classmates filling up their schedules with two, three, even four AP s, he figured that if he was going to be competitive, it was time to ante up. |
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| Sun, 11 Sep 2005 08:20:56 EDT Mayors fault FEMA response |
| Almost two weeks after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, some of the cities hardest hit by the storm are waiting for more help. "Clearly the FEMA response has been slow," Matthew Avara, mayor of Pascagoula, Mississippi, told CNN. Later today, President Bush will fly to New Orleans, his third trip to the Gulf Coast since the storm struck. |
| Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:51:40 EDT Japan exit polls: Big win for Koizumi |
| Exit polls indicate an overwhelming victory for Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, according to Japanese media. |
| Sun, 11 Sep 2005 08:05:47 EDT Israel votes to end Gaza rule |
| The Israeli government has unanimously voted to formally end its 38-year military administration in Gaza, the prime minister's office has said. |
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