Author: DXO
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[JJ Letters] Bring back news values
August 6, 1997 The news media’s criteria for what is “newsworthy” continues to fascinate this 1951 journalism graduate of Duquesne University. Back then, we had five W’s and an H – who, what, when, where, why and how. And of course, it was a sin to even hint at an editorial comment in a news…
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[JJ Letters] The truth about AA
June 17, 1996 The 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous often comes under public scrutiny by competing private services that know the price of everything and the value of nothing. This time they even fooled your staff writer (“Faith Fading as the Basis of AA, Some Leaders Say,” May 20). To begin with, there are no…
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BEHIND THE HEADLINES: Six minutes of nonstop gunfire reveal Iraq’s heart of darkness
February 13, 2004 Associated Press By JOHN BURNS A brazen attack hit an Iraqi civil defense compound in Fallujah just as the top U.S. commander in the Mideast, Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, arrived Thursday. This is a firsthand account of the assault by a reporter who was in the convoy with Abizaid and his…
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[JJ Letters] Brighton Heights NIMBY
January 9, 1996 Still another letter saying “It’s ‘No’ for Rehab Center” (Dec. 28) and again, from a resident of Brighton Heights, where someone is trying to reactivate the long-gone St. John’s Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Center. What’s with these people? The NIMBY crowd. They don’t want anything or anybody in their neighborhood that doesn’t…
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Brighton Heights NIMBY