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This is just bizarre: “Well, we’ve had some guys fill in very nicely for us,” Johnny Damon told the Hartford Courant. “Even Kevin Youkilis has come in and done a great job. [Cesar] Crespo’s been doing a great job. We miss the big home runs every now and then. Trot was especially big in […] I was in West Chester, Pa. reporting on the horrible Nick Berg story last week. He seemed like quite a guy. It sounds kinda flip saying this (I don’t mean it to) but myself and a few of the other reporters there toasted Nick and drank to his honor after-hours. Some of our coverage: […] How about this for a powerful, well-written column?From the U.K. Mirror: Tony Blair fooled me. He told us we were fighting for freedom, democracy and national security in Iraq. I see now that it was all a pack of lies. While this newspaper took an anti-war stance on Iraq, this column – to my […] Worth reading from from Riverbend… Baghdad Burning: “People are seething with anger- the pictures of Abu Ghraib and the Brits in Basrah are everywhere. Every newspaper you pick up in Baghdad has pictures of some American or British atrocity or another. It’s like a nightmare that has come to life. Everyone knew this […] Here’s a good story on Lynndie England, the girl at the center of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal: Lynndie England, 21, a rail worker’s daughter, comes from a trailer park in Fort Ashby, West Virginia, which locals proudly call ‘a backwoods world’. She faces a court martial, but at home she is toasted […] This is pretty funny – by a NY Post business writer: “Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Media (But Were Afraid To Ask)…If I’m writing a negative story about your company and I call you at 5:30 in the evening, giving you thirty minutes to respond before my deadline – yes, I […] From Healing Iraq: Now, regarding the disgusting images from Abu Ghraib that the whole world had witnessed in the last few days. They didn’t come as a surprise at all, we have been hearing stories about the abuse of prisoners for a long time from released detainees and from humanitarian organisations. It doesn’t […] |
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