The World This Week: Journalism for Dummies
On a slow news week such as the one between Christmas and New Year's, it is altogether fitting and proper that America's pundits would pad out their copy with trivia, even as the nation is gripped by an economic crisis.Take this breaking news story, written by...Let Them Play
A word of warning to Cinderella: should you ever encounter Susan Linn in a dark alley, you’d be wise to turn and run the other way.It’s not that Linn has anything against story book heroines per se. Indeed, Linn, a child psychologist and Harvard professor,...Merry Christmas, Mason Square
"The journey back to our building has begun!" Liz Stevens said after last week's meeting of the Springfield Library Foundation.Stevens, chair of the Mason Square Library Advisory Committee, was celebrating the Foundation's move to begin the...Between the Lines: All in the Numbers
I'm not a big numbers guy. I liked math OK when I was in school, but it never became an overriding passion. I find some statistics interesting and helpful—things like batting averages—because they can give a general statement (Red Sox slugger Dustin...E-Edition
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