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The Dowbrigade loves using the daily newspaper (usually
\n the Boston Globe) with his foreign students, be they lawyers or business
\n students or reprobate party animals. What a wonderful repository
\n of language and cultural information! What a great guide to a world-class
\n city, which is a much more effective language laboratory than any classroom.<\/p>\n
When we go through the paper for the first time, identifying
\n its sections and their functions, we always ask the question, "What news
\n gets on the front page?"<\/p>\n
"The most important news!" they invariably chorus.<\/p>\n
"And who decides what is the most important news? What
\n criteria do they use?"<\/p>\n
This leads to a long and interesting (hopefully) discussion
\n which usually arrives at the conclusion that the news on the front page
\n is filtered by a combination of what the owners think will have the most
\n impact on New Englander’s (the readers) and what they think will sell
\n more papers (because it is a business, after all).<\/p>\n
Of course, the Dowbrigade usually disagrees with the decision-makers on all counts, Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in The assertion came in oral arguments over a federal lawsuit by Maher Arar, Syrian and Canadian officials have cleared Mr. Arar, 35, of any terrorist New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n What! These subjects haven’t even shown their passports BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 10 – Armed men entered Baghdad’s Mr. Tamimi, the deposed mayor, was appointed by the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n We really think this scandalous news should have been When the Caesar occupied Great Britain, What kind occupation is this, if the occupied don’t even listen to us. The The Dowbrigade loves using the daily newspaper (usually the Boston Globe) with his foreign students, be they lawyers or business students or reprobate party animals. What a wonderful repository of language and cultural information! What a great guide to a … Continue reading
\n and today was no exception. Both of the following stories were buried
\n deep within the New York Times, the first
\n one<\/a> in the New
\n York Region<\/a> section, and the
\n other<\/a> on page 8 of the front section.<\/p>\n\n
\n the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges,
\n deprived of access to a lawyer or the courts, and even denied basic
\n necessities
\n like
\n food, lawyers for the government said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday.<\/p>\n
\n a naturalized Canadian citizen who charges that United States officials
\n plucked him from Kennedy International Airport when he was on the way home
\n on Sept. 26, 2002, held him in solitary confinement in a Brooklyn detention
\n center and then shipped him to his native Syria to be interrogated under
\n torture because officials suspected that he was a member of Al Qaeda.<\/p>\n
\n connections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n and legally entered the United States yet! Because of the vagaries of their itinerary they are herded into a transit
\n lounge in JFK for a few minutes and then right back on a plane to their destination. And
\n this gives us the right to detain them without charges, and deny them food and sleep?
\n For what? For how long? Forever? Jeez, that’s gonna do wonders for tourism
\n and US airlines…..<\/p>\n\n
\n municipal building during a blinding dust storm on Monday, deposed the
\n city’s mayor and installed a member of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite militia.<\/p>\n
\n central government and held ministerial rank. He was originally put in
\n place by L. Paul Bremer III, the top American administrator in the country
\n until an Iraqi government took over in June 2004.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n on the front page, and are still trying to figure out in whose interest
\n it is to keep it buried. According to our reading of history, this isn’t
\n how things are supposed to be. We thought that invading and occupying
\n a country, for all its messy complications, at
\n least brought
\n certain
\n perks,
\n like putting
\n your cronies into the mayor’s office! <\/p>\n
\n he didn’t have to put up with bullshit like this! When the British
\n occupied India, weren’t all the top civil administrators like Governors
\n and Mayors
\n and Sahibs all Brits? And now, the country that has produced Mayors
\n like Richard Daley, Fiorello Laguardia and Marion Barry can’t keep their
\n man in City
\n Hall despite having the iron fist of the American military backing them
\n up? <\/p>\n
\n world’s sole remaining superpower just can’t get any respect. Where is the quaint colonial luxury of past occupations? Maybe we
\n should pick up our toys and go home. It
\n would serve them right.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"