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Memorandum by John C. Yoo, deputy assistant attorney general, to Alberto Gonzalez, attorney general, October 23, 2001, page 24.
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The grass isn't greener when you don't know what grass looks like
New York City surveyed residents last year on their feelings about various municipal services. Some results are not surprising: people in high-crime areas feel the city does a poorer job at crime control than those in safer neighborhoods. However, residents in areas of the city that actually use the public school system rated it much higher than, say, the Upper East Side, which had a lower opinion of the schools (22% rating them good or excellent) than anywhere else.
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Rhetoric of the Image
At Times Open on Friday, I was chatting with the guy who runs the unofficial CNN Breaking News feed on Twitter. I recorded the interview on my BlackBerry, so the video would be automatically uploaded to Qik, and on a Flip camera, so I’d have a higher-quality copy for editing later. Another attendee, understandably finding some humor in this scene, snapped the above photo on his iPhone and uploaded it to Flickr. I was also caught contemplating my MacBook Air and tweeting. This is what happens at tech conferences.
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Gay Talese has a cold shoulder toward Times website no longer
Last year, Gay Talese told New York magazine that he had never visited the website of his former newspaper, The New York Times. “Never, and I never will.” This, despite the fact that he was working on a documentary with fellow Times veteran Arthur Gelb “about the paper’s struggles in the digital age,” according to New York. “I don’t deal with the technology,” Talese said, clearly with a whiff of disdain. “I don’t even know how to go into the Web. Maybe Gelb will do it. I insist on being with the people I’m writing about.”
Today, fresh off a Polk Award for lifetime achievement, Talese wrote a blog post for the Times website.
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Feel Me
Joe Biden’s response to this local TV news anchor…
…owes a debt to Lil Wayne:
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