Jokes and plagiarism swirl in a Boston Globe column
In a personal column Ken Brodnax weighs the ethics of joke attribution amid a plagiarism scandal at the Boston Globe. He notes Mike Barnicle and Patricia Smith face different fates for similar fabrications, reflecting on authorship, racism, and the risk of spreading one liner jokes from Carlin’s Brain Droppings.
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George Carlin
O.J. Simpson
Ron Goldman
Diana
Mike Barnicle
Barnicle
Carlin
Smith
Charles M. Sennett
Globe
Middle East
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Bubba Gravelhauser
Permian Basin
Bubba
Tenants Get 10 Day Extension In Briarwood Case
District Judge Bill McCoy granted Briarwood Village Inn Apartment residents a 10 day extension of the temporary restraining order. The order bars manager Phillip Waddill from eviction or seizing belongings while residents press a suit against Irongate Holdings Incorporated over a faulty air conditioning unit and alleged lack of cooling this summer. Michelle Jackson is noted as moving into the Lee Apartments.
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Briarwood Village Inn
Phillip Waddill
Irongate Holdings Incorporated
Briarwood
Bill McCoy
Michelle Jackson
Commissioners mull faxed questions on drug task force host
Ector County Commissioners unanimously approve sending a direct question to Texas Narcotics Control Program head Robert Bodisch. They seek whether the county can hire and fire the task force commander if it hosts the drug unit. A 4 p.m. meeting will address Bodisch’s response amid a two-month struggle over control of the Permian Basin Drug Task Force.
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Ector County Commissioner’s Court
Ector County
Robert “Duke” Bodisch
Texas Narcotics Control Program
Robert Bodisch
Bob Bryant
Bodisch
Bryant
John Smith
Jim Jordan
Odessa
Meet- Smith
Smith
Permian Basin
George W. Bush
Tom Todd
Todd
Big Spring to Get New State Veterans Home
Groundbreaking launched a Texas veterans home in Big Spring as part of a four site VA partnership. The state owns the facilities while the VA covers most construction and per diem costs, with bonds funding remaining costs. Officials project 130 to 160 beds including an Alzheimer's unit, and expect growth in veteran numbers by 2010.
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Big Spring
Texas
Veterans Administration
George Ellis
Veterans Land Board
Ellis
Garry Mauro
Mauro
Charles Stenholm
David Counts
OJ era and 1995 Oklahoma City bombing retrospectives
In April 1995 Americans watched Oklahoma City coverage as a deadly bombing claimed 168 lives and left thousands injured while other events from the era loomed. The piece ties the atrocity to broader 1995 crises including the Unabomber, Aum Shinrikyo, and the OJ Simpson trial amid a national mood of insecurity.
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Oklahoma City
Kobe
Aum Shinri Kyo
Supreme Truth
United States
Washington Post
O.J. Simpson
Rabin
Yassir Arafat
Middle East
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