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BOB SCHAFFERThe revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government…
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I used to be a print reporter.
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.
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Well, you know, in any political campaign, you’re gonna have people on one side that are gonna slip a reporter something because they think it’ll hurt the guy on the other side.
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There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
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A great deal of our ratings on the morning news are people who died during the night with their TV on.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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Nowadays I’m not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
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One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I’m interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
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My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
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And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They’ve heard it on the radio. They’ve seen it on the Internet. They’ve seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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