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For 25c you get a pound of paper, which is what the Washington Post weighs anyway: you don't pay for content with "traditional" media either. gulfstream/396

“I tell Burrows that if he is willing to submit to an interview, I am willing to review his book at length in The Washington Post. The only catch, … gulfstream/1048

Daily newspapers, unlike magazines, don’t directly respond to the letters of disgruntled readers. Jack Shafer says that a paper’s silence … gulfstream/1349

“Bush ‘sorry’ for Iraqi prison abuse.” And ABC just couldn’t resist! Bush did use the word “sorry,” but to take it out of context  … gulfstream/1432

NY Times acknowledges that some of its Iraq pieces “included incomplete information or pointed in a wrong direction.” A substantial apology, … gulfstream/1449

Profile of Malcolm Gladwell. Whilst working at the Washington Post, he won a competition with a fellow reporter over who would be first to get the phrase … gulfstream/2219

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"I do like to teach people," he said. "And I've taught so many kinds of people, you don't even know. The proudest teaching I ever had was I taught a pimp … quotes/472

He told the crowd that this was surely the most embarrassing moment in the museum's history, and that the Smithsonian is pretty much the opposite of everything … quotes/368

When Leith Mullings, an anthropologist from the City University of New York, sardonically said that "only people of color have race, and only women have … quotes/362

Yet mere wealth was never enough for him. Wolfensohn also found time to nurture and then to display his musical gifts. At age 40 he was encouraged by … quotes/349