| We Read The Weeklies |
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| _Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. Hey, PUNI's back! therefore brilliant, we're using it as the WRTW picture this week -- it's brilliant because it's true_! Matt Smith finally gets one cover article, on venture capital investments in grassroots organizing. He seems unusually enthusiastic about it, for him (i.e., "This might not suck."). Are you an apologist for Arlene Ackerman? Meredith starts off this week's review with "I haven't really been living in the Bay Area for the past month." Where's the rest of the food critics this week? And Dan Savage's back on his game, with one Spanking The Monkey scenario, and one spanking the monkey scenario. Extra bonuses: Santorum, and one letter from the editor of the Economist. Really! ... |
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| Safer for Teens |
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When News Corp. bought the social-networking Web site MySpace.com last July, the media company got two surprises, one good and one bad.
The good part: The site, where teens and twenty-somethings post pages about themselves and communicate with friends, already was popular, but it suddenly took off. In the last six months of 2005, MySpace's monthly traffic nearly doubled to 36 million users, making it the eighth-most-visited Web site in January, according to comScore Media Metrix. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch declared it the centerpiece of his new Internet strategy of attracting one large audience in one bid to bypass portals such as Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN in advertising revenue. ... |
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| Author bashes college policies |
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Last night in the Thomas Building, an audience of about 100 laughed as Mike Adams, an author and professor at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, spoke his mind on everything from free speech zones to Rene Portland.
He said he graduated college in Missouri as an atheist and Democrat, then experienced one six-year transition to the religious conservative he is today. He said his transition began with his views on gun rights after one fellow fraternity member was murdered. ... |
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