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bluestar23 - 09:53pm Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15548 of 15554)

Off-Topic, but..:

Telegraph:

"Pressure mounted on the New York Times yesterday to return a Pulitzer Prize won by their Stalin-era Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, after an historian hired by the paper found that he had uncritically recycled Soviet propaganda.

Mr Duranty, who died in 1957, has been condemned as "a disgrace in the history of the New York Times".

However, Arthur Sulzberger Jnr, the publisher of the newspaper - while accepting that Mr Duranty should not have won his 1932 Pulitzer - expressed concern that taking the prize away now, seven decades after it was awarded, smacked of Stalin's own "air-brushing" of history.

In the rarefied world of America's liberal media, it is hard to know which institution takes itself more seriously: the Pulitzer Prize, or the New York Times. Thus a scrap between the two, even a 70-year-old scrap, has rapidly turned into compulsive viewing.

Mr Sulzberger - whose newspaper suffered a blow this summer with the unmasking of star reporter Jayson Blair as a serial fabricator of stories - also asserted that it did not have Mr Duranty's tainted Pulitzer, and therefore could not "return" it.

The newspaper commissioned the review of Mr Duranty's work after protests led by Ukranian-American groups, angry that the reporter failed to report a famine that killed millions of Ukranians.

Mr Sulzberger said his paper would abide by the final decision of the Pulitzer Board.

But he went on to express concern that "the board would be setting a precedent for revisiting its judgments over many decades".

jorian319 - 10:48pm Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15549 of 15554)
The earth spin rate is slowing 2 msc/day as evidenced by the additon of a leap second every 500 days - James "I failed math" Nienhuis

Nooooo, Will. I do production and air work, voiceovers, copywriting and graphics for a set of small market radio stations. I live in "horse country" and am blessed to have a couple of good ones and some excellent trainers. Right now I am learning through a very talented cutting-bred quarter horse that I got as a yearling and is now three. We're training for a class of AQHA (American Quarter Horse Assoc) competition called "Versatility Ranch Horse". It involves cutting, reining, roping and trail and it all has to be done by the same horse/rider. I think I have the horse that can do it. Anyhow, I'm - er, we're - going to try. At least it's keeping me and my wife fit in our fifties!

The concern Robert imagines I have about the grave matters he allides-to-but-never-discusses is all but nonexistant. He mistakes facetiousness and sarcasm for profundity.

So WhoAreYou, Coop?

wrcooper - 11:50pm Oct 23, 2003 EST (# 15550 of 15554)

jorian319

So WhoAreYou, Coop?

I am a man of moderately advanced years who lives in a large city on the shore of Lake Michigan. My personal grooming, sartorial choices, and general style have metrosexual written all over them, down to the uniformly black beret, black turtle-neck sweater, black pants, black belt and black shoes. If I weren't not in Manhattan, I'd think I was, I surely must be or want to be, and I'd think I worked in advertising or graphic design or the legitimate theater. I'm almost certainly an aesthete, but I might be a writer, but, if I were, an honest self-appraisal, so necessary to the successful pursuit of any writer's inner journey, would force me to consider myself affected, pretentious and lacking only garrish motley to proclaim myself a fool. So you can deduce from that and all the rest of the above whatever else you wish to know about me. My sister in Montana raises American Curlies, and her husband, a Jewish psychotherapist, has a pet steer upon which he practices his roping. But that detail must have seemed obvious to you.

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