February 2012
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Someone called the newsroom to make a song...
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“I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have...”
– Anthony Shadid, NYT foreign correspondent who died of an asthma attack inside Syria yesterday, talks to NPR Fresh Air’s Terry Gross this past December about reporting from Syria, getting captured in Libya and the future of the Middle East. What an amazing man and an incredible journalist.
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“Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation...”
– Jill Abramson, New York Times executive editor, in her memo to the New York Times newsroom announcing the death of their colleague, Anthony Shadid (via soupsoup)
“I think [the Internet] is grossly oversold...
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"Famous for his jokes."
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Expelled from Party in 1927, readmitted in 1930. Tried for treason (second Moscow Trial of the 17 in 1937), confesses and implicates close friend BUKHARIN and others; spared death. Murdered by NKVD agents in labor camp. Famous for his jokes.
An excerpt from Karl Radek’s entry in the glossary of the forthcoming edition of Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge
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