The future is multimedia, and journalists are quickly learning to tailor their work for different mediums Late last year, Chicago Tribune reporter William Gaines got together with the newspaper’s jazz critic, Howard Reich, to do a piece about jazz legend Jelly Roll Morton. They wrote the article, and it ran in the paper. If it […]
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The Internet is changing the playing field for both ad agencies and their clients White the Pioneer Valley still lags behind other areas of the country in terms of Internet marketing, it is expected to do a good deal of catching up in 2000. This will bring both opportunities and challenges for the region’s advertising
DETROIT, Nov. 2 — Reform Party presidential candidate Ross Perot continued to hammer away at campaign finances Saturday, accusing both major party candidates of selling the government to special interests. Perot told supporters at a rally in Michigan that if elected, he would put up a sign saying: ‘This White House is not for sale.’
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The killing of two Russian border guards has raised tension in a forgotten conflict.
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NAZRAN, Russia, April 10 — Ingushetia has a lot of problems. The war with nearby North Ossetia, a troubled relationship with overlords in Moscow, run-away slaves. According to newspaper accounts and television programmes in Russia and Ossetia, Russians are tricked into coming to the south Russian republic of Ingushetia by promises of high wages, and
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NAURSKAYA, Russia — Legend has it that in 1774 the women and children ofNaurskaya fought off an attack by the Turks, armed only with pitchforks and pots of hot soup. As Cossacks, Russian warrior-farmers, it was their duty under the Tsars to defend Christian Russia’s expanding southern borders against Moslem Tatars and Turks. Today, the
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NAZRAN, Russia, Feb 28 — Preliminary poll results on Monday showed that General Ruslan Aushev was headed for re-election as president of the volatile southern Russian republic of Ingushetia. Opponents accused Aushev, whose army of uniformed police patrolled the polling stations, of securing victory in the north Caucasian republic by force and trickery. According to
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Maria Korolov in Jikhaskari finds that sightings of the dead president are a daily occurence
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QERVEND, Azerbaijan – Six months ago Azerbaijan’s army suffered defeats so monumental that the president fled the country and a fifth of the Transcausasian republic ended up in enemy hands. Critics from all sides castigated the military for gross incompetence in the face of attacks by separatist Armenian forces pushing into the republic from the
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Maria Korolov reports from a nervous border post overlooking Afghanistan on how CIS troops are fighting an uphill battle to keep the frontier intact against insidious incursions by the mojahedin
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GAGRA, Abkhazia – It is noon in Gagra, Abhkazia, where refugees gather in the courtyard of a former resort hotel converted to wartime use. “They came with tanks,” said 16-year-old Astanda. “A helicopter flew over us and dropped bombs. We lay down and the fragments flew over us, but the bomb did not hit. It
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There are two types of drug dealers: the one who looks like a genteel businessman, living an upscale life in an upscale neighborhood, and then there’s the one who is easier to spot. He mouths gang slogans, wears a team cap tilted at the precise angle to denote gang membership. He is an urban guerrilla.
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Though difficult to track statistically, the illicit drug business in Lake County shows signs of growth that have enforcement agents scurrying. Neither the Lake County state’s attorney’s office nor the Illinois State Police keep records on the number of drug cases from year to year, but figures from the Metropolitan Enforcement Group, or MEG, composed
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KHODZENT, Tadzhikistan — Tadzhikistan’s Parliament has removed the nation’s acting president in a lopsided vote, replacing him with the country’s third leader since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Parliament also requested help from Russian troops and neighboring Central Asian republics in bringing a halt to the civil war tearing the former Soviet region apart.
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KHODZENT, Tadzhikistan (UPI) — Tadzhikistan’s Parliament removed the acting president by an overwhelming vote Thursday and replaced him with the country’s third leader since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Parliament also requested help from Russian troops and neighboring Central Asian republics in bringing a halt to the civil war tearing the republic apart.
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