Monthly Archives: January 2004

A liberal Drudge? As much as I loath the comparison, I’ve been compared at times to none other than Matt Drudge. While I would hope this website is something more enlightened than that conservative sensationalist, there’s certainly reason to make that comparison. More to the point, I thought it interesting to compare traffic data. Although […]

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Interested to know exactly how journalists do their work? The Daily’s story about John Kerry’s victory does you a favor: it’s apparently followed by some of the reporter’s notes.

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If Ari Paul was fishing for a response with his column “Waiting for Connerly (A Play in Three Acts),” where he suggest the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative will have to pander to racist whites to get enough signatures to get their anti-affirmative action proposal on the ballot, (“Without assistance from the state GOP and financial […]

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To get an idea of some of the forces at work in Iowa, go to this website and click on a link beneath the old people. Here’s a transcript: “Announcer off-screen: WHAT DO YOU THINK OF HOWARD DEAN’S PLANS TO RAISE TAXES ON FAMILIES BY NINETEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS A YEAR? Husband: WHAT DO I THINK?WELL, […]

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There’s a few upcoming events of note: > At 6:30 today, there will be a screening of the documentary “Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin” at the Ann Arbor District Library. Bayard Rustin was an openly gay civil rights organizer who was the main organizer of the 1963 march on Washington. A group will […]

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Two U-M students died in a car accident over the weekend: “Members of the University community are mourning two students who died in a car accident while returning home from a ski trip Sunday afternoon in Ontario. Business School senior Joseph Hadeed and LSA junior Erin Tierney died in the accident and LSA junior Kathryn […]

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