Posted on 06/05/2003 7:51:24 AM PDT by RandDisciple
Just reported by Bloomberg News
Meet the new boss. . . Same as the old boss. . . We won't get fooled again!
German word. In German, a trailing "e" is NOT silent but is pronounced "ah".
"Freude" is German for "joy"; "shadenfreude" is "joy in someone else's troubles."
I understand the boss who said that, Landman, was under consideration for the managing editor post that Boyd got two years ago. Wouldn't it be something if Landman got that job now?
Best recording I know of the Ninth, though, especially of the final movement, is Furtwängler's Wartime Ninth, done in '44 or so. The tempos are frenetic. Perhaps it went with the Götterdämmerung atmosphere in Germany at the time.
Then expand to JK Rowling! Hey, We got ourselves a plan.
Beethoven is a little late for me, I'm edging into the Romantics from the Baroque end.
"Howell Raines and Gerald M. Boyd, the two top-ranking" screw-ups at the New York Times, home to some of the most gifted fiction-writing talent in the news business, "resigned [Friday] morning, five weeks to the day after the resignation" of Jayson Blair, reports the New York Times, hope and inspiration to aspiring plagiarists everywhere. Till yesterday, anyway.
"In a hastily arranged ceremony in the third-floor newsroom," publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who said recently he would not accept Raines' resignation even if offered, accepted Raines resignation as soon as offered, telling "staff members that he wanted to 'applaud Howell and Gerald,'" who put the interests of the newspaper below their own, "for putting the interests of [the] newspaper...above their own," said Sulzberger.
Replacing Raines on an "interim basis" will be Joseph Lelyveld, Raines' "immediate predecessor, who retired in 2001," says the Times, whose circulation amid the growing scandal fell faster than CNN ratings or Saddam portraits in Baghdad, perhaps.
Now, for you skeptics and cynics out there thinking this is just window dressing, purely cosmetic surgery -- a cheap face-lift, botox injection, tummy tucking, but still the same ol' Gray Lady, eh? -- or just plain ol' damage-control, well, relax: You're right.
Old habits die hard, and the paper likely will not break with proud tradition: Fabricating stories and making up quotes.
Though, to be fair, it is not right to say the paper lies in smoldering ruins. It's worse than that. It would need lots of emergency aid and reconstruction just to get to "smoldering ruins." Losing two wars on Bush's watch -- Afghanistan and Iraq -- doesn't help the Times much either.
Meanwhile, fears grow of a worldwide outbreak of NewYorkTimes-ism, despite efforts to contain it. Across the pond, the Guardian, like the Times, a paragon of shining excellence, on Friday issued a major retraction:
"A report which was posted on our website on June 4 under the heading 'Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil' misconstrued remarks made by the US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, making it appear that he had said that oil was the main reason for going to war in Iraq. He did not say that. He said, according to the department of defence website, 'The ... difference between North Korea and Iraq is that we had virtually no economic options with Iraq because the country floats on a sea of oil. In the case of North Korea, the country is teetering on the edge of economic collapse and that I believe is a major point of leverage whereas the military picture with North Korea is very different from that with Iraq.'""The sense was clearly," said the Guardian, "that the US had no economic options by means of which to achieve its objectives, not that the economic value of the oil motivated the war. The report appeared only on the website and has now been removed."
But that's not all.
A May 31 "blockbuster" titled, Straw, Powell had serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims, which made headlines worldwide and sparked controversy in London, was erroneous as well. The paper claimed Colin Powell, shortly before addressing the U.N. February 5, expressed skepticism over the quality of U.S. intelligence on Iraqi weapons charges during a meeting with counterpart Jack Straw in New York's Waldorf Hotel.
Guardian: "Mr. Straw has now made it clear that no such meeting took place. The Guardian accepts that and apologises for suggesting it did."
No word on whether the Guardian still plans, despite these flubs, on promoting Jayson Blair to Editor-in-Chief.
Hillary!, says the Associated Press, Reuters, CBSABCNBCCNN is omniscient, godlike, infallible, faultless, flawless -- a reservoir of unbridled genius.
But the New York Post reports that Hillary!'s "bombshell memoir," Living Hell, er, Living History, in which "she reveals stunning new details" no person outside a nuthouse could possibly believe, says "she didn't know if her marriage would survive the 'stinging betrayal' of her husband's tryst with Monica Lewinsky."
"This was the most devastating, shocking and hurtful experience of my life," recalls Hillary! when told by Bill that Bill had cheated on Monica, er, um, I mean, cheated on her. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry," Bill told Hillary! at the time. "I was trying to protect you and Chelsea." Bill had sex with Monica to protect Hillary! and Chelsea. Got that?
But isn't Hillary! lying when she says she didn't know about Bill & Monica till Bill told her shortly before testifying? Of course she isn't lying, say Hillary!'s defenders. C'mon, it's not like she's omniscient, godlike, infallible, faultless, flawless -- or some reservoir of unbridled genius!
Okay, let's cut to the chase -- why (besides $8 million bucks) she "wrote" this piece of fiction: She's running for president. Most likely in '08. One problem: The 22nd Amendment bars her from running cuz she's already served two terms as president ;)
Meanwhile, "Chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix has said his search teams are ready to return to Iraq to pursue new leads and try to answer outstanding questions about Saddam Hussein's programs for weapons of mass destruction," reports the Associated Press Friday.
Okay, All Together Now: Blix is ready, U.N. weapons inspectors are ready. Ready for what? To inspect! How do we know they're ready to inspect? Easy: They're wearing gear and equipment essential for proper U.N. weapons inspections: Blindfolds, ear plugs and hands cuffs.
Anyway, that's..
My two cents...
"JohnHuang2"
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