A friend of mine, who subs for a leading English newspaper, sent me this: ….(a) robbery story I subbed today…
Police officials inform that the gang approached a showroom at night, tied the watchman and eloped with the loot.
And of course, the dish ran away with the spoon. Maybe, journalism programmes ought to have written & spoken language modules!
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An editorial from the Washington Post
BIGOTRY COMES in various guises — some coded, some closeted, some colossally stupid. The bigotry displayed recently by Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., a Republican who represents a patch of south-central Virginia, falls squarely in the third category. Mr. Goode, evidently in a state of xenophobic delirium, went on a semi-public tirade against the looming peril and corrupting threat posed by Muslim immigration to the United States.
…..the real worry for the nation is that the rest of the world might take Mr. Goode seriously, interpreting his biased remarks about Muslims as proof that America really has embarked on a civilizational war against Islam. With 535 members, you’d think that Congress would welcome the presence of a single Muslim representative. Whether it can afford a lawmaker of Mr. Goode’s caliber is another question.
It is always inspiring to see the media play the role of the 4th estate. It would be so refreshing to see our editorials this hard hitting, rather than the completely middle of the road, self congratulatory, non committal ones that we tend to get!
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…. feels the Great Bong, to postpone the strike just before Christmas. And he offers suggestions on how she can make reparations.
The situation can only be salvaged if the strike be postponed to 26th and 27th which in hindsight may be even better because then Kolkatans, in addition to having five uninterrupted days of leisure, will also be able to watch comeback kid Dada bat in South Africa for the Boxing Day Test.
And the rest of the post continues in the same vein. Truly funny. Anyone get the feeling that Mamta is increasingly resembling Raju from Guide. Somebody please, please feed her!! aside: getting such opposing forces like the CPI, BJP, Mamta Banerjee, Arundati Roy and Medha Patkar together on the same platform is the best way to ruin the credibility of a protest movement!
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