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Posted on Wed, Oct. 15, 2003 HOLLYWOOD | NANNY CAUGHT ON TAPE Tape of nanny is misleading, attorney says An attorney says her client's behavior can be viewed as ''playful'' interaction, but child-care experts call it abuse of the 5-month old. BY ASHLEY FANTZ afantz@herald.com On Tuesday, a lawyer for a nanny accused of violently handling a Hollywood infant said a videotape of the caregiver and the child, which has aired repeatedly on television, is misleading. Fort Lauderdale attorney Allison Gilman said that slowing the tape, which shows Claudia Muro, 29, shaking the 5-month-old back and forth so aggressively that...

THE PUBLIC EDITOR THE first true blizzard of the first public editor's first season began Sunday, Dec. 21. The lead headline on the front page of The Times declared, ''Strong Support Is Found for Ban on Gay Marriage." Reading the article over my morning coffee, I wondered why a single poll - The Times's own, co-sponsored by CBS - was itself considered news (at least one other released around the same time showed substantially different results). But for the next two weeks, rising drifts of e-mail provoked by the piece made me realize my attention belonged elsewhere. Most correspondents felt...

It's not quite Soviet-style airbrushing, but the Bush administration has been using cyberspace to make some of its own cosmetic touch-ups to history.

Politics is a blood sport. If you cannot take the heat, it is best to avoid the political arena altogether. The level of intensity and the ferocity of the attacks increase with the level of the office. For months, the Democratic Presidential candidates have been fighting to represent their party next November. Their attacks have not been limited to their current opponents; they have also taken every possible opportunity to take the offensive against the current President. Here are some examples from the September 4, 2003 Democratic Presidential debate: Joe LiebermanNo planning was done by this administration. I believe it's...

He said he was able to call up the document in its Adobe Acrobat format and, using software that allows editing of PDF documents, then highlighted the blacked out editing bars and deleted them. The original, unedited text then appeared.