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Holocaust Denier Targets Boston University’s Elie Weisel
Jett Rucker of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (read: Committee for Open Denial of the Holocaust) has sent a letter to the editor of The Daily Free Press at Boston University denouncing Elie Weisel, founder of BU’s Center for … Continue reading
Brain Freeze At Boston Herald
Monday’s Boston Globe featured major coverage of a major brain injury study from Boston University. Via the Newseum’s Today’s Front Pages: (Full disclosure: The hardreading staff moonlights as a mass communication professor at BU.) . . . Read the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged AP, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston University, brain study, IGTLTDT, School of Medicine, Wingo Square
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Correction o’ the Day (BU Today Rules!)
From Tuesday’s New York Times: OBITUARIES An obituary on Wednesday about the publicist Lois Smith misstated the source of her comments that began, “I’m so glad I’m not doing publicity now.” They were taken from an interview Ms. Smith gave to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston University, BU Today, Hollywood Reporter, Lois Smith, New York Times, terriers
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Tikkun Is Now Officially Stalking The Hardworking Staff
Hard on the heels of Tikkun’s email blitz promoting its full-page ad in Wednesday’s New York Times (duly noted by the hardworking staff yesterday) comes a second wave of emails imploring us to interview editor Michael Lerner. Exhibit Amail: On … Continue reading
Boston Globe (Bleeps) The Freep
So, chronologically: Act One: On Monday the Daily Free Press, an independent student newspaper at Boston University, broke this story: COM prof. abandons class to promote book, officials, students say Pulitzer Prize winner and renowned author Isabel Wilkerson has not … Continue reading
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Tagged Bil McKeen, Boston Globe, Boston University, Daily Free Press, Freep, Isabel Wilkerson, Names, Tom Fiedler
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Facebook Is Stalking Me
Much to the hardworking staff’s dismay, we recently received this message from (In Your) Facebook: Hi [Hardworking Staff], You haven’t been to Facebook for a few days, and a lot happened while you were away. [A, B, C] and 4 … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston University, BU Today, Facebookinatrix, Gotlieb Center, In Your Facebook, Mugar Library
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A New Yorker (Editor) In Red Sox Nation
This email poured into the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider today: Dear Laughter Lovers, Well, as promised, I’m up in Boston at the International Society for Humor Studies Conference. The conference proper hasn’t started yet, so I don’t have anything specific … Continue reading
Boston: We’re Number Five! Boston University: We’re Number Whatever!!
Surveys, surveys everywhere . . . At the fancy-schmancy Aspen Ideas Festival this week (tip o’ the pixel: Politico Playbook), the Economist Intelligence Unit for Siemans released its U.S. and Canada Green City Index – and Boston made the Top Five: … Continue reading
Tyler Hicks’ BU COMmencement Address
New York Times photographer, Boston University alum (’92), and recent Libyan kidnapee Tyler Hicks delivered the commencement address Sunday to BU College of Communication grads, and it was the cosmic opposite of Katie Couric’s pert and perky performance at the … Continue reading
Dead Blogging Katie Couric’s BU Commencement Address
So after Boston University had conferred honorary doctorates on Frank (Always Color Inside the Lines) Stella, Nina (Proud BU Dropout) Totenberg, and Jacques (The Most Cookin’ Professor) Pépin, it was Katie, BU the Door. Introduced as someone who had scaled … Continue reading
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