"Anthony Shadid, a gifted foreign correspondent whose graceful dispatches for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Associated Press covered nearly two decades of Middle East conflict and turmoil, died, apparently of an asthma attack, on Thursday while on a reporting assignment in Syria. . . . The death of Mr. Shadid, an American of Lebanese descent who had a wife and two children, abruptly ended one of the most storied careers in modern American journalism. Fluent in Arabic, with a gifted eye for detail and contextual writing, Mr. Shadid captured dimensions of life in the Middle East that many others failed to see. Those talents won him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 2004 for his coverage of the American invasion of Iraq and the occupation that followed, and a second Pulitzer in 2010, also for his Iraq reporting, both of them for The Washington Post. He also was a finalist in 2007 for his coverage of Lebanon, and has been nominated by The Times for his coverage of the Arab Spring uprisings that have transfixed the Middle East for the past year."
Read the entire article in The New York Times here.
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Showing posts with label New York Times. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Compare college costs!
According to the New York Times, the federal Department of Education has published a new website for everyone to easily compare college costs. The full article is here.
(And check out TCC's very affordable costs compared to a gazillion other schools . . .)
(And check out TCC's very affordable costs compared to a gazillion other schools . . .)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
We're No. 12!
A very recent study by the College Board reports that the United States in no longer number one in the percentage of young people with college degrees. Instead, out of 36 developed nations, the U.S. ranks 12th.
An op-ed by New York Times staff columnist Bob Herbert analyzes why here.
Mr. Herbert asserts that students need to take some of the blame. He quotes the president of the College Board, who says that students need to work harder.
Read the column. Think about possibly responding to it in your Essay 3. Or just read it and post a comment here.
An op-ed by New York Times staff columnist Bob Herbert analyzes why here.
Mr. Herbert asserts that students need to take some of the blame. He quotes the president of the College Board, who says that students need to work harder.
Read the column. Think about possibly responding to it in your Essay 3. Or just read it and post a comment here.
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