By | August 22, 2005 | 5:17 am
News flashes from the United States' preeminent Sunday paper, August 21, 2005: People with summer homes are reluctant to go back into the city come Monday. Suburban teenagers hang out in parking lots and act rowdy. It's hard to find a nice, affordable apartment in the West Village. People have fun rooting at minor-league baseball games. A writer can find something soulful and authentic about choosing to drink in a semi-hostile dive bar. Many foreigners fly into Kennedy airport, some... READ MORE»
By | July 7, 2005 | 8:15 am
This morning's New York Times provides the latest installment in the saga of reporter-cum-memoirist Alan Feuer: an Editors' Note reports that the paper "asked its Baghdad bureau staff to recheck" an April 14, 2003 story by Feuer after Feuer claimed, in his book about war reporting, to have fudged facts in that piece. On reinspection, the Times says, the facts--a name and an age--check out, though Feuer did get another name wrong in the piece.... READ MORE»
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