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If you do it for free, they won’t respect you in the morning. Or the next day. Or the day after that. You sink everybody’s boat in the harbor, not just yours. So just DON’T!
Under her, Germany has once again become a nation to emulate.
France’s Finance Minister Christine Lagarde on Angela Merkel - The 2011 TIME 100
I don’t know what to make of these accusations. Part of me wishes that all this journalistic energy had been directed instead to ferret out abuses by politicians who allocate government resources to campaign donors rather than to the neediest among us, but that’s not a real answer.
Nick Kristof on Greg Mortenson accusations —NYTimes: ‘Three Cups of Tea,’ Spilled http://nyti.ms/gl23R4
I’m amazed the BBC wasted 3 bytes of memory linking such a crap video. Waste of space. Better luck next time Franz Strasser. Your filming sucks.

Not easy pleasing the BBC crowd (in this case user “MrLosernurse”) with a cell phone video on YouTube:

Snow storm causes traffic chaos in Washington, DC

The whole coast of South Carolina was built on stealing from poor black people. It’s legalized stealing.

Charleston-based attorney Thomas Goldstein talks about Heirs Property and why it cost African Americans millions of acres.

BBC News - Cherished land lost in the South

I think the South is a region that demonstrates… the truth of William Faulkner’s statement: The past is not dead. It’s not even over.
When you come to this graveyard you get a sense that this is a part of me. This is where I one day need to be also to be among those giant of people, the strongest of all of us, who are buried right here.

Fred Lincoln in Charleston, South Carolina, talks about a former slave graveyard that is still used today to bury loved ones. 

The story coming soon on http://bbc.com/news

Why don’t you send press releases as a fax?
People who don’t appreciate their American identity they feel like they live in a foreign land, but they live in their own country. Because he’s part of this country and I want him to appreciate the part of being an American.
Kuol Awan, a Sudanese ‘Lost Boy’ living in Arizona, on raising his newborn son. Watch this space for the story.
College tennis would not be nearly as good with just American players.

Rodney Harmon, former USTA men’s tennis director

BBC News - Debate over foreign players in US college tennis

I don’t buy the argument about there not being enough good American players. They may not be good now but you give them a great coaching environment and you can make those players great.
Craig Tiley, Australian Open Tournament Director and former coach at the University of Illinois, made it a point to recruit local American players
It’s a fairness issue. I don’t think the intent of Title IX was for a European pro to come here and take a scholarship from an American kid who might not be as good.

Geoff MacDonald, who coaches one international player on his women’s team at Vanderbilt University.

My story on college tennis and the rise of international players, coming soon….

It’s a nice collection of short-form work, and I’ve been rewarded with lot of followers … and exactly no money.
David Carr writes about his twitter contributions in: Media Companies Cash In, at Cost of Unpaid Contributors - NYTimes.com
One other media note: the best coverage I saw by far was by al Jazeera and BBC World News America. If you do not DVR or watch Matt Frei’s and Katty Kay’s 7 pm hour-long BBC America broadcast, you’re missing a huge amount of what’s going on in the world.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (via kattykay)

Sullivan knows it best!

With 33% unemployment, we need to get the much-needed jobs first and talk about wages later.
Chicago Alderman on Walmart coming to town http://franz.tv/g2dT1W

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