Some Like It Hot
Date: 25 May 2014
By MAUREEN DOWD
Maureen DOWD
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column memorializes legendary New York Times editor Arthur Gelb, saying his passing has left the world a duller and more lackluster place; recalls several anecdotes from Gelb's tenure during the newspaper's golden age.
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Barbara Walters Gives Archives to Sarah Lawrence College
Date: 26 May 2014
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Dave ITZKOFF
A collection from the pioneering broadcast journalist Barbara Walters includes papers, recordings and photographs from her television career.
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Global Digital News Brands See Growth Opportunity in India
Date: 25 May 2014
By MAX BEARAK
Max BEARAK
BuzzFeed, Huffington Post and Atlantic Media are among the companies with plans to build major online news operations in India, both on their own and with local partners.
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Deterrence Revisited
Date: 25 May 2014
By DAVID E. SANGER
David SANGER
News analysis; Pres Obama will face challenge of convincing world that American willingness to deter aggressors still persists when he gives commencement speech at United States Military Academy; some senior officials worry about global perception that Obama has created space for American adversaries and assorted strongmen to challenge or ignore rules of global order.
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Press Battle in Pakistan Feeds Into Larger Conflict: Government vs. Military
Date: 26 May 2014
By DECLAN WALSH
Declan WALSH
Conflict between Geo News, Pakistan's most popular news channel, and military spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence has broadened into larger clash between country's civilian and military leadership; conflict began when Geo accused ISI of orchestrating gun attack on journalist Hamid Mir, leading ISI to demand news channel's closing.
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Tiananmen Comment Eyed After Professor's Microblog Vanishes
Date: 26 May 2014
By AUSTIN RAMZY
Austin RAMZY
The popular microblog of a professor at Peking University has been blocked, perhaps because he posted a comment about the military suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen protest movement.
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The Pitch of America’s Voice
Date: 26 May 2014
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Editorial urges House Foreign Affairs Committee to put safeguards in proposed bill regulating Voice of America to ensure standards of objective journalism are not sacrificed to government propaganda; notes that measure downgrades VOA's board, which has been criticized for mismanagement, to advisory role and tightens VOA's mission to be more consistent with promoting foreign policies of United States.
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