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Bush League: Roundup of Impertinent Media Reportsnew
In The Nation, William Greider writes that many Americans seem to find strangely agreeable the self-pity Bush’s fear-mongering rhetoric generates.
Pittsburgh City Paper |
Bill O'Driscoll |
06-16-2004 |
Politics
Free Wi-Fi Turns Austin into an Internet Access Hot Spotnew
Richard MacKinnon set out to create his own reality, one in which Internet access would be free for all and open to anyone. That was the impetus for the Austin Wireless City Project.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-16-2004 |
Science
Tags: Starbucks, Ana Sisnett of Austin Free-Net, Austin Electronic Frontier Foundation President and Polycot Consulting CEO Jon Lebkowsky, downloadable format, Hyde Park hipster landmark Quack's 43rd Street Bakery, keyboard, Leslie Martin, owner Bouldin Creek Coffee House, Schlotzky's, wireless groups, Zane McCarthy of Austin Unleashed, Health & Science
Motor City Is Being Driven to Destructionnew
In the 1950s, when Michigan poured hundreds of millions of dollars into building expressways, Toronto built a subway. Now Toronto has a vital downtown while Detroit has lost more than half its population.
Metro Times |
Keith Schneider |
06-16-2004 |
Politics
Arab-American Support for Bush Is Waningnew
A polar shift in the attitude of Iraqis toward their American “liberators” is mirrored in the political atmosphere among Arab-American and other Middle Eastern voters here in the United States.
Metro Times |
Curt Guyette |
06-16-2004 |
Politics
Oh for a Book and a Shady Nooknew
Summer reading is not about literature. It has to be easy. There will be plenty of time to take up "Ulysses" in the fall.
Hartford Advocate |
Janet Reynolds |
06-16-2004 |
Fiction
Tags: Various Authors, Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen, Boy Still Missing by John Searles, How to Be Good by Nick Hornby, Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand, Stranger Than Fiction by Chuck Palahniuk, summer reading, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, The Mitford Series by Jan Karon, The Sister Fidelma Series by Peter Tremayne, Fiction Reviews
The Faith of Journalismnew
A heathen editor confronts his own ‘religion.’
Seattle Weekly |
Knute Berger |
06-15-2004 |
Media
The Corporation Psychoanalyzednew
Corporations are "persons" under the law. A new book and film ask, What kind of people?
Seattle Weekly |
Roger Downey |
06-15-2004 |
Reviews
Black Democrats Revive Benjamin Banneker Clubnew
The club, named after an African-American intellectual and astronomer who died in 1806, sees its mission as encouraging minority-citizen participation in the Democratic Party process as well as identifying and promoting minority candidates for public office in New York State's Onondaga County.
Syracuse New Times |
Walt Shepperd |
06-15-2004 |
Politics
Interviewing Ziggy Marley: Son of the King of Jamaican Blingnew
Ben Fogelson, reporter for the Eugene Weekly, speaks with Ziggy Marley about his recent tour, and about having conversations with his deceased father, Bob Marley.
Eugene Weekly |
Ben Fogelson |
06-15-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pixies Reunion Proves They're Better Than Evernew
A reporter takes in the minutae of a Pixies reunion concert.
Eugene Weekly |
Ben Fogelson |
06-15-2004 |
Concerts
Yea, Though He Walksnew
A Memphis man sets out to cross Death Valley on foot in order to test his latest invention.
The Memphis Flyer |
Bianca Phillips |
06-15-2004 |
Travel
Delusions of Power
U.S. censorship and American propaganda are leading the country in the wrong direction.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
06-15-2004 |
Commentary
Torturing the Truth
National news analysis explains the synergy between the Bush administration and the media that keeps America in the dark about the recent revelations of prisoner abuse in Iraq.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
06-15-2004 |
International
Tags: international
What Would Lincoln Do?
In a speech to MoveOn.org on May 26, 2004, former Vice President Al Gore discussed the failures of the Bush Administration, the Iraq war and prisoner abuse. His talk is excerpted here.
Random Lengths News |
Al Gore |
06-15-2004 |
Politics
I Was a Federal Informantnew
After the wrong type of tenant moves in, a Philadelphia landlord finds himself mixed up with seven government agencies, a Jamaican drug ring and a North Philadelphia community center.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Amy L. Webb |
06-15-2004 |
Crime & Justice
