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POPSA writer is a person who cares about words. When I was struggling as a freelance writer, this quote was my mantra. Often when I told people I was a writer, their response was, "What have you written?" Later, when I was conducting memoir writing and personal history, I used the quote again to convince my students they were writers.
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POPSPeggy Noonan on Obama: "bulletproof" Reagan's speechwriter points out that Obama's charisma and personality will make negative campaigning and dirty tricks by Republicans look even lower than they are. Clinton will be "easier for Republicans" to go after in the nastiest way possible.
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POPSThree sentenced to hang for murder of an African 'ghost' A string of brutal attacks in which members of the minority group have been literally hacked to pieces, with children as young as five being killed, has provoked angry criticism of the government. Tanzania, while an extremely poor country, has long enjoyed relative stability and is renowned for its spectacular national parks and Indian Ocean coastline.
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POPSSkydiver survives 10,000ft fall to the ground A skydiver had a remarkable escape after surviving a 10,000ft plunge to the ground when his parachute failed to open. The person to have fallen the greatest distance without a parachute, and survived, is Vesna Vulović, a Serbian air hostess who fell 33,000ft after her JAT airliner was blown up in January 1972. The 22-year-old landed in snow in the former Czechoslovakia.
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POPSAl Sharpton: Somali Pirates are 'Voluntary Coast Guard' And car-jackers are volunteer transportation management consultants. Muggers would then be freelance cash re-distribution agents. Burglars are property assessment and re-assignment specialists.... If you think Sharpton is alone in his sympathetic view, guess again: at NewsBusters, P J Gladnick has been compiling his own examples of pirates as "misunderstood" individuals: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2009/04/13/leftwing-blogosphere-picks-al-jazeera-theme-somali-pirates-are-misunde
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POPSBBC:"Police chief quits over blunder" After BJP put these complaints to the Met, a spokeswoman admitted Section 14 was wrongly applied. 'It was used to get people to leave an area,' she told BJP. 'It should not have been used specifically against photographers, and they should have been able to stay (in the immediate area) after showing their press cards. The Metropolitan Police apologises if that was not the case.' The apology comes after both the NUJ and BPPA praised police communication with journalists on the day, but cited a number of incidents about which they remain concerned. 'We're unhappy that photographers were pinned in with the demonstrators during the Bank protests,' says NUJ freelance organiser John Toner. 'It appeared that if photographers wanted to leave the area, they first had to agree to be photographed. We find this unacceptable,' he says. ... bjp
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