Why Are We Back in Vietnam?
Date: 26 October 2003
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich article considers media coverage of Iraq War and resentment of Bush administration as press reports deviate from White House script; sees similarities between press's current role in covering situation in Iraq and its importance thirty years ago in providing public with information about US embroilment in Vietnam; photo (L)
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The Times Chooses Veteran of Magazines and Publishing as Its First Public Editor
Date: 27 October 2003
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
Daniel Okrent, longtime magazine editor and author, is appointed first public editor of The New York Times; executive editor Bill Keller will make formal announcement of his appointment; he will begin 18-month term on Dec 1; Keller says Okrent will operate outside management structure of newspaper's newsroom and its editorial page; says he will be given unfettered opportunity to address readers' comments about The Times's coverage, to raise questions of his own and to write about such matters in commentaries that will be published in newspaper as often as he sees fit; photo (M)
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Word for Word/Soft Touch; From Our Man in Moscow, In Praise of the Stalinist Future
Date: 26 October 2003
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
Word for Word column excerpts Walter Duranty's dispatches to The New York Times from Russia in 1930's; photo; historian Mark von Hagen, examining coverage at Times request, says Duranty's reporting was so flawed as to justify stripping him of Pulitzer Prize posthumously (M)
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Don't Tread on Us; Radical Islam Gains a Seductive New Voice
Date: 26 October 2003
By David Rohde
David Rohde
Broad and increasing influence of radical Islam on worldviews of millions of Muslims around world discussed; anti-American, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories are conveyed with ease and authority via Internet and satellite television, which also allow political Islam to portray itself as strongest ideological counter to democracy and capitalism; photos; political Islam's growing voice suggests that US faces much more nebulous enemy in war on terrorism than movement of religious zealots (M)
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G.M. and Fiat Delay Deal
Date: 27 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors Corp and Fiat SpA say they have delayed by year accord that could have forced GM to buy Fiat's unprofitable automotive unit in Jan because of dispute over accord's validity (S)
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SK Approves a Bailout of Its Trading Unit
Date: 27 October 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SK Corp board approves bailout of its ailing trading affiliate, SK Networks (formerly SK Global), by swapping 850 billion won ($723 million) of its debt for stock (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 26 October 2003
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 North Korea Shifts Stance On Nuclear Weapons North Korea indicated it could consider President Bush's offer of security guarantees in exchange for dismantling its nuclear weapons program. 1
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 27 October 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-11 Blasts Shake Baghdad, Killing at Least 15 A series of explosions shook the Iraqi capital, including a suicide attack on the offices of the International Committee for the Red Cross. An American investigator said he had counted at least 15 dead. Most of the dead appeared to be Iraqis. A1
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The Week in the News: Oct. 19-25
Date: 26 October 2003
ON the surface, it is hard to understand why college tuition is rising more than twice as fast as inflation at private universities, and almost six times faster at public institutions, as the College Board reported last week.
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