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The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People announced Sunday that Donald Sterling will not receive an honor amid controversy over a recording said to be of the Clippers team owner making racist remarks. The Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP had been scheduled to give Sterling the group's lifetime achievement award at its May 15 banquet. At the banquet, the NAACP also planned to give its first "person of the year" awards to L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

EditorialSecond Thoughts By: William W. Lawrence 06/01/2004When the media covers the same story in lock-step with the same advocacy purpose, it is what I call "pack journalism."John Leo came up with a perfect clarification of "pack" journalism in an article entitled "The Not-So Perfect Storm" which appeared in U.S. News & World ReportHe called it "three green suitcase" journalism. He wrote, "let's say a feature writer thinks green luggage is becoming popular. So the reporter taps out a story citing three people in different states who have given up black suitcases and bought green ones. The second paragraph begins: 'All...

Rumsfeld’s 1950s-style unilateralism is out of touch with the way the world works Nov. 3 issue — I can’t help it. I like Donald Rumsfeld and I like his sharp elbows. I like the way he spars with reporters and tries to cut through all the Beltway gunk. Of course he probably should have been fired last summer for incompetence. His “plan” for postwar Iraq, if one can call it that, was beyond inadequate: his failure to secure key installations with military police, his politicizing of intelligence, his insulting of allies and his arrogant insistence on phony estimates of the...