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		<title>Crusade of the 6th Graders</title>
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I&#8217;m at a death penalty conference.  More on that later. But in the meantime&#8230;. Here&#8217;s a story about some local  kids who are fighting to get the grown-ups to do the right thing:

Yesterday at five in the morning, a van full of eleven Topanga Canyon six graders (plus four mother-type chaperones) left on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Murderer, the Prosecutor, the Stripper&#8230;..and the Supremes</title>
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It is a dramatic legal story&#8230;.but with a twist.  And it&#8217;s a hell of a twist having to do with a well-known prosecutor and a stripper.
First, here are the basics: 

On Monday, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously that San Quentin inmate Adam Miranda should not have been sentenced to death twenty years ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Burma</title>
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Disaster aid for Burma isn&#8217;t easy because the government is not exactly outsider-friendly.  But my friend Richard Walden and Operation USA are already on the ground in Myanmar, because they&#8217;re a lean, mean relief organization that has a great reputation for being able to bring supplies into difficult places.

After the jump you&#8217;ll find the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Gremlins</title>
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Apologies to all those who found the site down today. 

As it happens, I was working on something unrelated, so didn&#8217;t discover it for hours.
To be exact, I didn&#8217;t see the problem&#8230;.until I was on the phone with a deputy district attorney and HE tried to log on and got an error message&#8230;.. and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DRUDGE CALLS IT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, what does he know that we don&#8217;t know?


Or is he just being gutsy?  (And, well, Drudge-y)
Russert says that Clinton has canceled all Wednesday morning&#8217;s TV appearances.  (This via Andrew Sullivan.)
MEANWHILE&#8230;.. we wait for&#8230;





(Ha!  I see Andrew Sullivan has his own  YouTube version.)

OH, YEAH, the LA Times&#8217; Mark Z. Barabak says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina and Indiana&#8230;..Barack Back On His Game</title>
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Obama&#8217;s found his voice again and he&#8217;s got a new musical refrain&#8230;
Instead of Yes We Can&#8212;which he uses not mostly as a punchline&#8212;he is using as his repeating chorus &#8220;I trust the American people.
And he uses it well:
We can choose not to be divided&#8230;..we can choose not to be afraid..
This time can be different than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Clinton and the Perils of &#8220;Gameshow Journalism&#8221;</title>
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Barack Obama has had a very unpleasant April says Andrew Tyndall of the Tyndall report.  Well, that&#8217;s hardly new news.  But Tyndall isn&#8217;t talking about Obama&#8217;s loss in Pennsylvania or his former pastor&#8217;s  not-so-comedic stand up performance at the National Press Club.  Media analyst Tyndall is talking about the deluge of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New &#8220;5 W&#8217;s&#8221; of Market-Driven News</title>
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As a companion to the story above about Game Show journalism, I thought you&#8217;d enjoy reading this report by one of my smart USC students, Jackie Cook.

The class assignment was to report on a news conference or a speech.  Jackie chose the presentation below about how economics drive news coverage.  I think you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAUSD&#8217;S Pricey Arts Palace</title>
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In case you missed Steve Lopez&#8217;s column yesterday, it&#8217;s a good one.  Here&#8217;s how it began:

&#8220;What is it?&#8221; Kelly Charles asked as he walked to his job as a custodian in downtown Los Angeles and gazed up at a rather odd construction project. &#8220;A roller coaster?&#8221;
As I wandered the neighborhood, other guesses were:
A ski [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Gang Violence is a Disease&#8230;.  What is the Cure?</title>
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One of this morning&#8217;s must reads is the Alex Kotlowitz article in today&#8217;s New York Times Magazine called Blocking the Transmission of Violence about gang violence as a public health problem.

The article is about the work of Gary Slutkin, an epidemiologist and a physician who for 10 years battled infectious diseases in Africa, and who [...]]]></description>
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