Monthly Archives: June 2003

Michigian Squirrels are changing color?5.23.03 Free Press: “Let’s hope this one’s not the butt of jokes”6.30.03 Free Press: Brown-butt squirrels all over Michigan

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The Cleveland Plain-Dealer breathlessly anticipates this year’s Art Fairs, warning that “Trying in one day to see everything within its 25 linear blocks of merchandise can put you on a crafts death march.” The article also has this to say about our fair town: “Downtown Ann Arbor is cosmopolitan for its size, offering a United […]

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Was Leon Trotsky a neo-conservative?“I’ve talked to Wolfowitz about all of this,” Schwartz notes. “We had this discussion about Shachtman. He knows all that stuff, but was never part of it. He’s definitely aware.” The yoking together of Paul Wolfowitz and Leon Trotsky sounds odd, but a long and tortuous history explains the link between […]

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The first issue of the Baghdad Bulletin is online, and it includes this article by LSA undergrad David Enders about problems with Iraq’s electrical system: “Getting back on the grid”. While David’s article is good, the whole paper smacks of cultural and economic imperialism. For example, what exactly does, “Dedicated to covering the redevelopment of […]

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After the University took the unusual step of releasing information about yesterday’s shooting as a press release, the story was picked up by the AP:AP: “University of Michigan offers reward in campus shooting”CH4: Reward offered for U-M shooting suspects Meanwhile, Chris Webber is saying the feds lack evidence he took money from Ed Martin.

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The Michigan Daily has posted a story about the crime alert released today, “Shooting on North Campus”, written by none other than longtime reporter Maria Sprow. Although I’ve come not to expect much from the Daily, this error seems inexcusable:Paragraph 1: “A 40-year-old man walking on a North Campus sidewalk was shot five times early […]

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Democratic candidate for President Dennis Kucinich at the Conference to Take Back America:“… Yet the most impassioned applause of the day was reserved for Kucinich. Introduced by Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America, as “the only vegan in Congress,” Kucinich took the stage to John Lennon’s “Imagine” and proceeded to conjure the […]

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