News Groups Seek 9/11 Suspect's Filings
Date: 17 September 2002
By Philip Shenon
Philip Shenon
Several news organizations file legal briefs seeking to unseal court motions filed by Zacarias Moussaoui, French national accused of conspiring in September 11 terrorist attacks and who is acting as own lawyer (S)
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MediaTalk; Lou Dobbs to Weigh In As Regular in U.S. News
Date: 16 September 2002
By David Carr
David Carr
US News & World Report will carry columns by Lou Dobbs on money and politics and Dr Bernadine Healy on health; photo (M)
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Media; If it's on Al Qaeda's favorite station, is it news? A television reporter with a 9/11 scoop finds that nobody seems to care.
Date: 16 September 2002
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer column says American news organizations remain wary of Al Jazeera, Arab satellite television network, sometimes passing up newsworthy material, because they feel it to be too close to Al Qaeda; discusses questions arising from interview that two Al Qaeda representatives gave to Yosri Fouda of Al Jazeera, which was not widely picked up by American media until one of them, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, was arrested in Pakistan (M)
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Learning Beyond Measure
Date: 17 September 2002
By Richard R. Beeman
Richard Beeman
Op-Ed article by Richard R Beeman, dean responsible for undergraduate education at University of Pennsylvania, says US New & World Report and other college ranking systems are flawed in their conception and pernicious in their effect on prospective students and parents; says intellectually curious and motivated students can achieve excellent educations at many different kinds of colleges, and those students will be much better educated than those who pas through 'top 10' schools passively and without intellectual passion; says rankings both underestimate amount of work it takes to get college education and overestimate importance of university's prestige, and in that way may do considerable harm to the educational enterprise itself (M)
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War Horrors Take a Toll On Reporters At the Front
Date: 17 September 2002
By Erica Goode
Erica Goode
Study led by Dr Anthony Feinstein of University of Toronto, published in American Journal of Psychiatry, finds that significant number of foreign correspondents who regularly cover wars and other armed conflicts were severely traumatized by what they witnessed and experienced; finds rates of serious depression and post-traumatic stress disorder were substantially higher than reporters who did not cover wars, higher than those of police officers and comparable to those of combat veterans (M)
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Sports of The Times; The Giants Aren't Out When Down
Date: 17 September 2002
By Bill Pennington
Bill Pennington
Bill Pennington Sports of The Times column contends that New York Giants play best football when discounted by other teams and media; photo (M)
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Tarnished Image Places Welch in Unlikely Company
Date: 16 September 2002
By Leslie Wayne and Alex Kuczynski
Leslie Wayne
Reputation of John F Welch Jr, former chief executive of General Electric whose management style, swagger and acumen were once analyzed and idolized in business schools, has lost a good deal of luster as result of questions about company's accounting, eerie consistency with which profits rose during his tenure, company's weak stock performance since his departure and disclosure of details of his retirement package; business press will even include Welch's name in same paragraph with such dubious figures as Kenneth L Lay of Enron, Bernard J Ebbers of WorldCom and Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco International; Welch goes on Wall Street Week to defend retirement package and deplore its release; photos (M)
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FORWARD AIR'S PROFITS WILL BE LOWER THAN FORECAST
Date: 17 September 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Forward Air Corp says third-quarter profit will be below analysts' forecasts, sending its sharaes down 15 percent (S)
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SPIDER-MAN PUBLISHER APPOINTS SUCCESSOR TO CHIEF
Date: 17 September 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Marvel Enterprises Inc says Allen Lipson will become chief executive after Peter Cuneo retires at end of year; Cuneo will continue to serve as board member and adviser (S)
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WAL-MART SALES ROSE TO EXPECTATIONS LAST WEEK
Date: 17 September 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wal-Mart Stores Inc says sales last week at stores open at least year rose within company's forecast (S)
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