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<p>How The Times decided to publish the accounts of 16 women who said they had been sexually mistreated and humiliated by Arnold Schwarzenegger.</p> <p>The volcanic passions of the recall are largely spent, though we'll no doubt be feeling their effects for many years. Today, on this Sunday of relative calm, I'd like to tell you how the Los Angeles Times decided to publish the stories of 16 women who said they had been sexually mistreated and humiliated by Arnold Schwarzenegger.</p>

PARIS(AFP) - Mark Raboo speaks of the moment when he wished the floor had opened and swallowed him, and all because of some misheard lyrics. The 24-year-old was jamming with a rock band when a guitarist launched into the opening chords of The Who classic "I Can't Explain," and he joined in on vocals. "The real lyrics were 'A certain kind, can't explain'," says Raboo. "But I misheard them as 'Been circumsized, can't explain.' The laughter ended that cover pretty quickly..." For Lisa -- her last name understandably remains under wraps -- public death by ridicule occurred when she took...

HELL FREEZES OVER [Rod Dreher] "I'm trying to pick my jaw up off the floor," says an L.A. journalist friend who passes along this May 22 memo that Times editor John Carroll sent to some staffers:To: SectionEdsSubject: Credibility/abortionI'm concerned about the perception---and the occasional reality---that the Times is a liberal, "politically correct" newspaper. Generally speaking, this is an inaccurate view, but occasionally we prove our critics right. We did so today with the front-page story on the bill in Texas that would require abortion doctors to counsel patients that they may be risking breast cancer.The apparent bias of the writer...

John Carroll is the editor of The Los Angeles Times. On May 22, he sent a memo to all of his section editors. It is an extraordinary document, and the website www.laobserved.com was the first to make it available to the public. Carroll's subject was liberal bias in the paper. The specific target of his concern was a biased report on a "bill in Texas that would require abortion doctors to counsel patients that they may be risking breast cancer." Carroll ripped his paper's coverage of that particular bill, but his broader points are much more important. "I'm concerned about...

Tuesday, October 08, 2002   DR. JOHN CARROLL is a reader in sociology at Melbourne's La Trobe University. That is to say, he is paid to educate young adults. This bland statement of fact may mean nothing to you now, but let's see how you feel after we've finished examining the highlights from chapter one of Carroll's awesomely pretentious and imbecilic new book, Terror: A Meditation on the Meaning of September 11 … The highjacked planes were flown through the bright early-morning American east-coast sky. This is the hour of Apollo, the sun god, who presided over ancient Delphi. His...

http://www.jcu.edu/research/scholarship/schedule.htm Wednesday, March 20, 2002 John Carroll University 216-397-1886 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. paper/panel presentation (O'Dea Seminar Room 3, LSC) Contemporary Social Issues in American Society Moderator: Dr. Phyllis Braudy Harris, Sociology (D.5) Contemporary Social Issues in American Society: Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland: How Are They Making A Difference? Kimberly DeSimone, Undergraduate Student; Dr. Susan O. Long, Department of Sociology, Faculty Advisor. Planned Parenthood is a nationwide, official not-for-profit organization whose main goal and purpose is "to promote family planning and to assure reproductive freedom for all through advocacy, education, and healthcare." The purpose of this research project was...