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For as long as doomsayers have predicted the decline of civic-minded reportage as we know it, reformers have sought to draft a rewrite of the institutions that train many undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a career in journalism. Criticisms of journalism schools have ranged from questioning whether the institutions are necessary in the first place (since many journalists, and most senior ones, don’t have journalism degrees) to debating the merits of teaching practical skills versus theory and whether curriculums should emphasize broad knowledge or specialization in individual fields.

All of those issues, and others, came to light on Wednesday at a meeting of journalism school deans, editors and news executives struggling with the perennial questions of what aspiring journalists should learn, how they should be taught and how schools should adapt to the fast-evolving and ever-fragmenting media landscape.

A VISIT TO THE HOLEY LAND

Fifteen residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts, formed a people-to-people delegation to Bethlehem, that "little town" of legend and current West Bank reality for five days in late November 2007, with a day in Jerusalem before and after. What follows is my impressions of this trip. Those who care about Palestinian rights may find some useful observations. I hope that those who care mainly about Israel will read on and perhaps come to agree that present policies are no better, in the long run, for Israel than they are for Palestine, and that a resolution that is good for Palestine will also benefit Israel. .

Paul Thompson from Canada writes: Edward Tilton and Bob Imami, once ...

Get rid of the 'bad' individuals to ensure that the 'good' ones will be tolerated. With no plan to eliminate those 'bad' wolves, the Yellowstone reintroduction could never have happened. And if the 'bad' ones were not still being destroyed, the ranchers would take care of ALL of them.

There is a surplus of Siberian tigers in zoos now. I'm sure one would be happy to move to San Francisco. Posted 26/12/07 at 10:19 PM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .

When animals go AWOL, zoos try to tame bad PR

When an escaped tiger killed a San Francisco zoo visitor on Christmas, it was the biggest blow yet to an industry that has been working hard to improve its reputation.

The problem: Some animals aren't cooperating.

In 2007, at least 10 animal escapes from U.S. zoos generated press coverage. Fugitives include a cheetah that scaled a fence at the St. Louis Zoo, a peacock that walked out of the Denver Zoo and took up residence on the front porch of a nearby house, and a geriatric spider monkey named Rena who jimmied open her cage door at the Dallas Zoo before being recaptured.

Still at large: an African white-backed vulture with a nine-foot wing span that squeezed through a fence in Dallas. "The general feeling was that she could survive out in the wild," says Karen Hamilton, a spokeswoman for the zoo, adding that the search is ongoing.

Fighting recession

These men, differing in party and outlook, join us today because we all recognize the important stakes for our nation in this issue. Yesterday we saw the sight of an old world dying, a new one being born in hope and a spirit of peace. Peoples who for a decade were caught in the cycle of war and frustration chose hope over fear and took a great risk to make the future better."

It was sign by President Clinton--he WAS the president. He didn't HAVE to sign it and then bring all the former Presidents together and brag about it, unless you are suggesting he was just parroting Bush Sr. projects. What else did Clinton do that you are blaming on Bush Sr.? And is your problem with Bush Sr. or Bush Jr.? Or is it just all Republicans? You are moving the target, I see.

Reed Smith Environmental Group Defects to Saul Ewing

Steven Picco, a leading environmental lawyer in New Jersey for 25 years, is heading a five-lawyer defection from the Princeton, N.J., office of international giant Reed Smith to the cozier confines of 250-lawyer regional firm Saul Ewing.

The move ends Picco's decade with Reed Smith, which had 380 lawyers and the ambition to have many more when he joined in 1997 during a wave of migration to out-of-state firms by homegrown New Jersey lawyers.