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Stephen Crosby is perhaps the scariest gaming regulator in America in the scariest state to open a casino.
And that's exactly where he wants us to be.
"We knew this would be a tough process," said Crosby, chairman of our inaugural state gaming commission, over breakfast recently.
Three bidders for the sole slots license have moved to the next round, but with the deadline six weeks away, none of the applicants for the two resort casino licenses has yet submitted a final proposal.
To the casino industry, Massachusetts has been a nightmare. There's a 250-page application with 197 questions, plus a $400,000 nonrefundable application fee. There's a rigorous state background check and the host community must vote on whether to allow a casino in its backyard. Another bid, Foxwoods, bit the dust Tuesday night when the town of Milford just said no to gambling. But to casino opponents, the high hurdles make Massachusetts a dream state. Perhaps that's a sign the process has been too tough.
Has it been, Mr. Chairman?
"I don't think so," he said confidently.
In fact, Crosby reminded me that the commission has rejected just one applicant, Ourway Realty, after state investigators discovered that a key figure in the operation took more than $1 million out of the company.
But did he forget . . . et tu, Crosby? No, he asserts he did not kill Caesars' plan to open a resort casino in East Boston. Rather, state investigators raised red flags about the company's relationship with a hotel that had alleged ties to the Russian mob. It was Caesars' partner, Suffolk Downs, Crosby said, that dealt a death blow to the gaming giant's vision.
Besides, a little tough love goes a long way in an industry that hooks seniors on slots, creates gambling addicts, and causes so much traffic that host communities need to be bought off with millions of dollars funneled into their parched budgets.
Before Deval Patrick appointed him to the commission two years ago, Crosby was ensconced at UMass Boston as the founding dean of the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies. Prior to that, he served in top posts for Governors Paul Cellucci and Jane Swift, including a stint as Cellucci's secretary of administration and finance. Crosby, 68, said he opposed casinos back then, but now calls himself "pro-implementing the law."
"Regulation in every industry tends to lose [its] edge over time. You only have to look at financial regulation in 2008," he said. "It is appropriate to be looking for new blood, new vigor."
Is Crosby worried the commission may have overplayed its hand and the state will end up with no casinos?
"We are fully expecting at least one quality applicant for each license," he said.
And in the extraordinary event that a region doesn't receive a final proposal? Crosby shrugs off the possibility. "We just would do it over again. There are plenty of people who want to do this."
See what I mean by scary?
What's even more frightening about the process of opening a casino here is what's not in Crosby's control. While everyone had kept a long watch on the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe and its effort to get federal approval for a gaming complex in Taunton, the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah last week unveiled something that seemed as unlikely as hitting the Pick 6 at Suffolk Downs: a claim that it has the federal go-ahead to open the state's first casino on tribal land on Martha's Vineyard.
The prospect of not one, but two Indian casinos, threatens to rework everyone's gambling revenue projections, the state's included. Still, Crosby plans to give out a third resort casino license in the southeast region, extending the deadline for a final proposal until June.
"We're in the impossible situation, whether or not there would be a designation," Crosby said of the Wampanoag tribe and federal approval. "It could be tomorrow or 30 years."
Here's another impossible situation: What happens if former state attorney general Scott Harshbarger and other gambling opponents succeed in repealing the casino law? It's a long shot, but they're gathering signatures to get on the ballot next fall.
For the first time during our conversation, Crosby hesitated when I asked that question. I think he wanted to throw up his hands.
"I don't even know," he said, of what's next if the casino law dies.
Crosby has been good at his job, perhaps too good. It's not what the gaming industry wants, but it's what Massachusetts needs as we warily wade into casinos.Shirley Leung can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @leung.


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Hours later the skeleton has vanished and one man is dead.
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Mike, the Power flour is one of the best unbromated flours I've ever seen, but I've always felt that as you increase the protein, you also increase the potential for tough crusts when cooled. At least, you do with 14% flours. 13.5% still seems a bit high to me, so I'd like to see what can be achieved with a blend.Have you witnessed any toughness with the Power flour?
Peter,The dough management I used for this Luigis attempt was the dough was mixed on Sunday for Tuesday. (I know Luigis dough is supposed to be only fermented for one day, but from my other attempt, I didnt think there was any flavor in the crust, so that is why I did a two day cold ferment.) My final dough temperature was 76.2 degrees F. The dough was balled and went right into the refrigerator after the dough was balled. The dough was left to warm up at about 72 degrees F for 1 ½ hrs. The dough ball did have a bubble on the top of the dough ball even before I left it warm-up, but the bubble got bigger while it was warming up. I did rehydrate the ADY in a portion of the total formula water. The bake temperature was about 525 degrees F for about 5 minutes.Norma
Mike same question for you. Your mallet finger, how long did it take to recover and what actions did you take and is yours a full recovery?
Norma,Wow! That looks like one of the most authentic-looking NY-style slices I have seen on here. How would you compare the PPF to other flours you have used and how was the texture of the crust?
PE101,What happened to me was that I broke the knuckle on my right pinkie (it got pushed in and the docs had to pull out the finger in order to re-align the bones) and put it in what I call a "fist wrap" for the lack of a better term. Had it for about 7 weeks, with the lone digit being the thumb sticking out. I only had six fingers to work with back then. Afterwards, I had to perform some exercises on a daily basis to get the tendons and ligs going again.So, consider yourself lucky that you only have it in a mallet. And yes, it was a full recovery. No problems.
I just thought about the last time I played basketball and am embarrassed to say that it was at least 15 years ago. I'm not really recalling all the details- just that the worst jam was excruciatingly painful and that it hurt for a day or two. No residual issues. I've also had other gentle finger jams that hurt for a few seconds and then went away.Btw, have you looked into voice recognition software? I've played around with Dragon Naturally Speaking and thought it did a pretty good job after just a little training. Windows Vista and 7 are also supposed to have voice recognition capabilities.
Norma,I went back to the original DDD video at to see how your latest Luigi clone pizza compared with those shown in the video. I think that your Luigi clone looks like those in the video, at least in terms of look and feel (pizza size, crust thickness, the crunch when cutting, etc.), but with less crust color at the rim and bottom of the pizza. According to the video, Luigi uses an oven temperature of around 525-550 degrees F. In your case, should you decide to make another Luigi clone, you might try using a lower bake temperature and a longer bake time simply as a test to see if you get more crust color while retaining the usual characteristics of a NY style pizza. If that doesn't work, then it is possible that you need a longer fermentation time to release more sugars from the flour to contribute to more color. You might recall that Jet_deck (Gene) observed that Luigi might have been placing the boxes of dough balls near the oven to accelerate the fermentation process (and that the guys at Bronx appeared to be doing the same). Apart from the possibility of adding more sugar if the above measures do not work, I did not see anything obvious in what you did to explain why you did not get more crust color. It looked to me that you did everything right.Peter
Norma, your results look great. I am not from NYC nor have I been there but from pictures of real NY pizza and from the NY style pizza I have eaten, yours looks like a spot on clone. I think Luigi would be proud of you! If I did not know any better I would say you have taken the DNA from a real NY pizza and made a clone of the NY pizza and presented it to us. I have heard of clones of sheep but pizzas? In all seriousness you did a fine job. Once my finger is all healed up I will try to do a Luigi clone with all the great info you and everyone has presented us in this discussion on the subject.
Norma,Now that you have had a chance to use the Power flour and have tasted the finished crust using that flour, is there a particular duration of cold fermentation that you would like to use for the next Luigi clone?Peter
Norma,Excellent job! I loved the look/size of the slices too! Made me super hungry before lunch here!
It doesnt matter to me what I try next. I will let that up to you in the formula I try, and also what kind of fermentation you want me to try.
Norma,Since Jet_deck (Gene) informed us at Reply 91 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,14928.msg151218/topicseen.html#msg151218 that Luigi's cold ferments its dough for 24 hours, I'd like to see you attempt a 24-hour cold fermented Luigi's clone dough. For this purpose, I would use the Luigi #1 clone dough formulation as set forth at Reply 177 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,14928.msg151870.html#msg151870 but modified to reduce the amount of yeast to a value that I believe should work for a one-day cold fermented dough in your part of Pennsylvania this time of year. Using the expanded dough calculating tool at http://www.pizzamaking.com/expanded_calculator.html, this is what I get:Luigi One-Day Cold Fermentation Clone Dough Formulation (Modified #1 Luigi)Pendleton Power High-Gluten Flour, Unbleached (100%):Water (Crystal Geyser Spring Water) (65%):ADY (0.55%):Salt (1.984%):Sugar (0.22928%):Total (167.76328%):308.74 g | 10.89 oz | 0.68 lbs200.68 g | 7.08 oz | 0.44 lbs1.7 g | 0.06 oz | 0 lbs | 0.45 tsp | 0.15 tbsp6.13 g | 0.22 oz | 0.01 lbs | 1.1 tsp | 0.37 tbsp0.71 g | 0.02 oz | 0 lbs | 0.18 tsp | 0.06 tbsp517.95 g | 18.27 oz | 1.14 lbs | TF = N/ANote: Dough is for a single 18" pizza; bowl residue compensation = 1.5%In terms of the dough preparation, I would like you to try to achieve a finished dough temperature of around 80 degrees F. Also, before refrigerating, I suggest that you let the dough rest for about 20-30 minutes. That period would be about what it might take workers at Luigi's to take a large dough batch and divide and scale it into a large number of dough balls before putting them into the cooler. The rest period should also enable the dough ball to get some fermentation going before refrigerating. The objective is to get sufficient fermentation and to have an amount of sugar (residual sugar) left over beyond what the yeast needs as food to be available at the time of baking for final crust coloration. You will have to monitor the temper time at market to be sure that the dough isn't either underproofed or overproofed. In the above formulation, the salt is regular table salt, which is what I assumed when I came up with the original Luigi clone dough formulations. If you prefer to use Kosher salt, then you may have to redo the above dough formulation to use the Kosher salt. Peter


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Good episode with a change of direction but that opening scene should've been either completely in the last episode or in this one... Somehow the episode endings/cliffhangers are no longer fulfilling. OST announcement where?
Next week: obligatory beach episode.
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* At some point, if I have time, I'm going to create an animated .gif of everyone in class going, "HNNNNG!"
* Misaki doesn't seem too happy about the change in her situation. Is she afraid people will keep ignoring her, only now there won't be an excuse? Or is she afraid Sakakibara will go hang out with the cool kids?
* At this point the evidence that Sakakibara is dead is pretty heavy, yet Misaki and Twintails deny it.
* I'm sticking with the theory that Twintails is Ritsuko
* According to the ever-reliable CR subs, Misaki is going to her parents' (plural) place for a week. I believe this is the first reference we've had to her father still being in her life. Up until this point, I've had the impression that it was just her and her mom. I wonder what type of person her dad can be -- I just can't picture a salaryman living in that place.
* I never expected to laugh at an episode of Another, but the preview for next week is hilarious.
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This episode was the most gruesome so far. The director kept his words, even if the neck stabbing scene was slightly censored by a shadow (you could still see much of everything anyway). Face melting was cool too.
Ignoring two students didn't work, so Mei and Kouichi are allowed to exist again. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed at first, since now that they won't be the "only two people in the world", their relationship isn't going to progress as fast as it has in the past episodes. Thankfully, Mei proved me wrong very quickly by giving her cell number to Kouichi (she kind of used the curse as an excuse, but we all know the truth ).
I liked that Kouichi was starting to doubt himself and shared it with Izumi, who revealed she had even considered the same possibility as us. She's a smart girl. The fact the series openly brought up the theory that Kouichi is Another was good as confirming he isn't in my book. I'm still sticking with Reiko being Another. Speaking of which, what the hell is she doing at the beach in the preview? Pretty weird.
I was wondering how they were going to shoehorn a beach episode in that kind of series, and I think they did a pretty decent job integrating it into the story. It still feels a bit forced but it's not too bothersome. I don't expect the trip at the shrine to work of course, but they may find a clue there.
I found it interesting that the doll is supposed to be Mei's stillborn little sister. I'm inclined to think it's irrelevant to the whole curse plot though. It just explains why her mother acts so oddly, the loss of that child must have been a huge blow for her. The fact she forces Mei to carry a cellphone at all times implies that despite her weird behavior, she does care for her daughter and is afraid she's going to lose her as well.
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Awsome Episode I loved it! The end of this episode helped my theory that Mei looks good in every outfit she wears XD she was so cute in that red skirt, and the one-piece swimsuit next weeks looks adorable, and so awkward on her XD
Anywho onto the serious stuff, I agree with Utsuro no Hako I think Izumi has some connection to Ristuko, and Reiko still seems very suspicous to me.
The class trip looks fun, makes you wonder what would happen if the whole class took a trip out of town :P would the curse stop while their gone or target anyone close to them who didn't go?
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Addressing and then downplaying the idea that Kouichi is the Another this late in the series seems to solidify that the story is not going in that direction. I'd say the same for Mei too. Those are too obvious at this point, all evidence is red herrings for sure.
And any filler that puts twintails in a swimsuit is ok filler to me.
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That eerie face-melting nightmare combined with Izumi's pseudo-accusation of Kouichi being the other made me think that the possibility that our MC is the other has been hinted at too heavily, and most likely is a red-herring. Plus, Mei pretty much straight up told him that he isn't the dead one.
I guess I was correct about her doll eye being able to see the 'other', eh? That makes me wonder if Mei knows whom the dead one is, and simply refuses to tell anyone about it. It could be her stillborn sister, I guess. Or Ritsuko actually had twins, and only one of them survived. *shrug*
So apparently, our protagonist and the twin tails feel like they've shaken hands prior to Kouichi's arrival in Yomiyami. I've given this quite some thought, but blah; I've got nothing.
I'm worried that Mei will fade out of existence as she does in the ED somewhere near, if not at the very end of the story.
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I haven't been creeped out with a show since....I can't remember when, lol! When Kouichi had pulled his face off, it gave me shudders like no other.
I still think Akazawa is the Another. That whole 'physical familiarity' feeling she got made me think that she was an incarnation/ghost of Kouichi's mother .
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Opening scene was great, I loved the blood getting all over everything.
Mikami-sensei is starting to scare me...a lot. I hope the Librarian makes it to the end, Im really starting to like him.
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I loved the sound direction. Quite a fair bit of the BGM was playing at a menacing low frequency. I'd have to listen to the episode with headphones later. It definitely added to the overall unease and suspense.
It's wide open who the extra is now. It could be Izumi, based on her vague memories of Kouichi. It could, again, be Mei, a shadow of her missing half.
Argh. Nevermind. Am looking forward to Jaws swimsuits in the next episode.
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Wow, just wow. Teacher suicide in the middle of the class! I was speechless.
Thought he would try to kill someone, not himself.
Was it the curse or just mental break 'cause of stress...
At least now Kouichi & Misaki are not invisible anymore.
Finding out who the extra student is, is proving to be a real pain.
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Arya, he wasn't trying to prepare a fish after all...
Ah~ah, can't feel sorry for the guy. Part of the bullying, the fact he chose to teach that classroom, and traumatizing a whole bunch of peo... well, they were part of the bullying too, so oh well, but still, he dirtied the desk and ground! They had no fault. Poor desks and ground. I think some guy vomited too.
If you wanted to die, I'd think there were less painful ways to do so though, than rather... err, stabbing yourself in the neck. Not that I would know first-hand.
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I was surprised by how quickly the teacher's suicide and murder of his mother was attributed to the calamity, since all the others so far have died due to suspicious illnesses or accidents. Was it really so unthinkable that he just snapped that they were willing to break with agreed upon countermeasures? I'm not suggesting they're wrong, since there's been no further fallout from retiring the non-existent club. I just found it odd.
Twintails is flagging hard as the extra if Mei's assertion that Kouichi's alive is to be believed. She's left it hanging out there twice now that she feels she's met him before. At this point though, we may as well just wait and see, since there have been so many red herrings. I like the theory that she's Ritsuko because of the implications, but it doesn't seem to scan with why Sakakibara's memory of a year and a half ago would need to have be altered, since she's been dead for 15.
As expected, Mei still knows more than she's letting on. Not only is there her apparently all-seeing eye, but her dislike of mobile phones calls back to the many times Sakakibara has suffered from poor reception since coming to town, and the oddly specific reference to leaving town during the calamity being like getting out of cellular phone range.
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I don't think Akazawa is Another, much less Kouichi's mother. I took what she said as yet another clue that Kouichi lived/visited Yomiyama in the past, and that his memories were altered meaning he was aware or perhaps even witnessed Another's death. Besides, it's never been hinted (unless I missed it) that the dead one could be given a completely different identity, appearance, and memories, effectively turning him an entirely different person. That's too convoluted and it would make it absolutely impossible to figure out his identity.
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Yet another spate of episodes of plagiarism and fabrication is raising concerns about the state of journalism. But a tougher and more candid approach to enforcing standards is also part of the picture.
By Lori Robertson Lori Robertson (firstname.lastname@example.com), a former AJR managing editor, is a senior contributing writer for the magazine.
I F IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST form of flattery, we seem to be entering an age not rivaled since royal courts teemed with bowing courtiers in plumed hats. Everywhere you look somebody is getting busted for plagiarism, which is imitation carried to its highest form, the exact copy. That lead was written in 1991 by Jerry Carroll of the San Francisco Chronicle. It just as easily could have been written last month. But each time a slew of people get caught, it's not necessarily indicative of a slip in journalistic standards, or even a trend. In fact, say many, ethical standards are higher today. And while it's important to talk of the seriousness of these sins, perhaps the actual number of cases is decreasing. After all, most organizations are quick to dismiss the purloiners--two plagiarists down, X more to go. Are the media actually cleaning up their act? "We in the media have become more sensitive to ethical problems than we were perhaps 10 or 20 years ago," says Fred Brown, chairman of the Society of Professional Journalists' ethics committee and the Denver Post's Capitol bureau chief. "We understand that in an environment where people are bombarded by all kinds of media...it's important that serious media have credibility and are serious about maintaining it." Philip Meyer, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says "plagiarism that used to be acceptable is not anymore." In a May 1999 USA Today column, he cited a 1938 journalism textbook by C.D. MacDougall, which "advised concealing the source of rewritten material in order to make it seem original," Meyer wrote. News organizations seem almost desperate to rebuild credibility in the public's eyes. It's the age of admit and reveal and explain. And, so, the media are admitting and revealing and explaining not only in their own outlets, but over the Internet. Now, everyone hears about almost every gaffe, whether it involves the New York Times or the Owensboro, Kentucky, Messenger-Inquirer. Washington Post Supreme Court reporter Charles Lane was the editor of The New Republic in May 1998 when the magazine fired Stephen Glass for fabricating a story. What turned out to be Glass' chronic fictionalizing marked the start of a rash of plagiarism and fabrication cases that have come to light since. Lane says he sees the cluster as a sign of health of the industry, "in the same way that a fever is a good sign that your body is fighting an infection." News organizations "seem to be comfortable with coming forward and saying, We have a bad apple,' " he says. A few months after Glass was exiled from journalism, Patricia Smith and then Mike Barnicle, Boston Globe star columnists, resigned because of fabrication charges. Smith admitted she had made people up; Barnicle maintained that a questioned column from 1995 was true. National media coverage of the episodes mushroomed for weeks. That attention, says Globe Editor Matthew V. Storin, has sprouted more detailed examinations of possible wrongdoing at other news organizations. "Now, between the Internet, which allows the transmittal of this information much quicker, and the effect of the Barnicle/Smith stories, there seems to be more attention paid to these instances," Storin says. Some journalists and media critics do say plagiarism is on the rise, and an increase or decrease is almost impossible to measure. But most agree on one thing: The media are on high alert. One case causes a ripple through the industry, launching a plagiarist's past employers into a frenzy to restore their now-tainted credibility. Go ahead, journalism seems to be saying. Plagiarize. We'll catch you. And then we'll examine every story you've ever written. The New Republic found evidence of fabrication in 27 of the 41 articles Glass wrote for the magazine. Lane says many saw that episode as a cautionary tale. "People broadly now are more aware that there's this fine line between trusting someone you work with and being a chump," he says. "And you definitely don't want to be a chump."
T HE FIRST STEP IN fixing a problem is to find out why it occurred. However, with plagiarism and fabrication, as with much human behavior, reasons aren't always clear. In a soul-searching way, Dennis Love runs through most of them: ambition, self-induced pressure, sheer opportunity. He says it may be "a reluctance to turn in a mediocre story.... You don't want to be ordinary, and there's nothing really wrong with being ordinary from time to time." Most journalists want to gain approval. The difference is, most journalists don't plagiarize. Most journalists don't make it up. Frank Ahrens, a staff writer for the Washington Post's Style section, says everyone has been in the situation: You're on deadline; you didn't have time to do the research someone else had already done; your quotes are "banal or flat"; you think, "Wouldn't it be better if he said this instead?" "But you stop," Ahrens says. "You don't do that." Whether from ambition, compulsion or laziness, fabricators often invent the unusual: Eric Drudis' 9-year-old boy who had been arrested more than 70 times; Stephen Glass' Wall Street investment company that housed a shrine to Alan Greenspan, complete with two Bic pens used by the Federal Reserve chairman in 1993; Janet Cooke's 8-year-old heroin addict in her infamous 1981 Washington Post piece. But Love's Warren Deering, a gun issues expert, doesn't budge an eyebrow. Of then-Vice President Al Gore's tie-breaking vote on gun control legislation, the fictitious Deering said: "With that vote, Gore solidified his standing forever with gun-control advocates, and forever earned the enmity of the pro-gun lobby." Surely, there must be no shortage of firearms pundits ready and willing to serve up such a quote. Love is one of many who have used quotes they could have easily obtained on their own or who have stolen rather innocuous material. He admits some character flaw "allowed me to hit the button to file my story. I mean, I knew what I was doing." In such instances and in blatant plagiarism cases, the act may be one of compulsion, like shoplifting. It's a theory to which Philip Meyer is beginning to subscribe. "Some plagiarists act like they want to be caught," he says. Like some shoplifters, they don't even need the stuff they're taking. All of these reasons, however, have been given for years. The one thing that's changed for Love and Cragin and others: the Internet. It used to be to plagiarize from another publication, you'd have to type the information in letter by letter, staring at your source. It took a little more effort than what you can do now: cut and paste some words from a Web page you can call up in seconds. Love admits the availability tapped his weakness. The new medium changes the dynamics once again. Almost everyone interviewed for this article mentioned the Net as a greater lure and a greater police officer in the game of plagiarism. "There are more eyes looking at more publications across the country," says Sacramento Bee Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez. "There's a potential for increased plagiarism, but I also think the potential to get caught is greater." Just as a writer can highlight and copy, an editor can hit the search button. Rodriguez goes on to caution that the standards for print and online need to be the same. He says the Bee's director of new media recently did a copyright violation search of the Web for a Bee review of a Shania Twain concert. The review popped up on about 100 Web sites, mostly fan sites and music pages, he says, without the paper's permission. Similarly, the Associated Press is running into more copyright violations as Web sites that aren't members post AP material. We all think the Web is free. And that idea, says the Post's Ahrens, may cheapen the words on the screens, making plagiarism seem less of a crime. "I'm always surprised when all my journalism friends say, 'I don't have cable.... I don't have a TV,' " says Ahrens. As if they're too good for it. "But TV is a cheap medium." That characteristic "tends to devalue the content on it.... Unlike a movie or a book," which costs money. "The Internet may cheapen the content on it, because it's right in front of you." It's easy. It's free for the taking. And it's voluminous. Karen DeWitt, a Washington, D.C.-based writer and former senior editor at ABC News, says offenses are harder to catch because an editor can't read everything that's on the Web. "There's huge amounts of information that's easily accessible," she says. But while the Internet may spell a frontier of freedom for some, it's fostered an age of the hyperlink for others. Says Meyer: "One thing that the Internet is encouraging us all to do is to cite sources with much greater care than in the past.... I try to drop the name of a book or the name of a Web site" into a column, to point readers to sources of more information. The understanding of what constitutes plagiarism is not universally held. When DeWitt taught a freshman journalism class at Kansas State University during the 1989-90 school year, one of her students lifted whole paragraphs from a Newsweek article. DeWitt told the student she would receive an automatic F; the student protested that she had mentioned the Newsweek article in her piece. The fact that she still couldn't swipe chunks of another person's story "seemed a very difficult concept for her to grasp," DeWitt says, adding that it's a problem she's heard of at other universities as well. The San Jose Mercury News' David Cragin didn't get it either. When he admitted to using passages from a story by the Post's Ahrens, he told the Merc, "I know it's pretty similar obviously, but that's just a small piece of the story." He didn't think what he'd done was unethical, but said, "evidently, I guess I'm wrong." (Mercury News Executive Editor David Yarnold, however, disagrees with that statement. "My guess is he knew that it was wrong at the time," Yarnold says.) In a December 26 story on San Francisco families living in hotels, Cragin wrote: "Most of these hotels in the city are more than half a century old; they were built for the solitary working men who streamed into the city to toil at the wharves and the railway lines. They were never meant for families." Ahrens had written November 27: "Most of these hotels are more than a half-century old; they were built as hives for the working men who streamed to this city to toil at the wharves and the railway lines. They were never meant for families." Ahrens, who was out of town when the plagiarism news broke, received a hearty, " 'Way to go, congratulations,' " from Post colleagues, he says. His own reaction was that "it was odd," to see his words under someone else's name. "Writers tend to remember what they wrote.... I remember where I was when I was writing things." He recalls sweating over a "short, powerful" line that would pull readers into a long story: "They were never meant for families." "I could see," Ahrens says, "in his story, it was like boilerplate." Writers do remember their turns of phrase, the right word that finally came to them in the shower, their rhythm, the decision to go back and put in periods to make short, choppy sentences. All of which makes the "accidental" plagiarism, the "it got mixed up in my notes" excuse, a little harder to believe. Ahrens, for one, isn't buying it. "That's baloney," he says. "That's a big pile of sliced baloney.... If you're not a halfwit or a felon...you know what's going on." Meyer also brings up the carelessness excuse, but then adds, "it doesn't sound viable for me." Others can see it happening, however, and news organizations have accepted that plea. Ruth Shalit, for one, admitted to being "a klutz" when charged with plagiarism in two stories in The New Republic in 1994 and '95. She continued working at the magazine, faced another incident in '96--after which she took a leave of absence--and eventually left in January 1999. Whether the cut-and-paste ease and the mass of electronic information will lead to more cases of plagiarism--or more firings--is unclear. Some editors, such as Rosemary Armao, wouldn't accept the "mistaken ownership" excuse. "I just don't think we have any room for it," says the Sarasota Herald-Tribune managing editor. "There is something that has to be absolute, and that's that it's an original work product." She continues, "The Internet has certainly increased the number of resources and sources you can use." That doesn't mean you can't name those sources. Editors seem to be most forgiving when copying involves news briefs or items based on wire and other news accounts. That's when a bungled attribution becomes more understandable. In July, San Antonio Express-News Sports Editor Mitchell Krugel apologized to readers, as did Editor Robert Rivard, for not crediting four paragraphs in Krugel's piece on Tiger Woods to Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Gil LeBreton. The story carried Krugel's byline and the tag line: "Express-News wire services contributed to this report." The LeBreton piece ran on the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service wire. Krugel wrote in his apology that he was not trying to use LeBreton's words as his own, but he should have better attributed his material. As a result, an Express-News committee took a look at the paper's policy. "Given the landscape," one of information saturation, says Krugel, "we should examine and reexamine attribution consistently, and this is a situation that helped raise the consciousness on doing better journalism."
A FTER CHARLES LANE found himself duped by Stephen Glass, he adopted a more meticulous approach to checking out potential new hires. Say you got your bachelor's from Brown, for instance? He'd call and find out. Lane says that may be the only way to prevent fabricators from gaining a voice in journalism. "I really think the most important thing you can do, which The New Republic really didn't do when it hired Stephen Glass, is screen people very carefully when they come in for integrity," he says. "Make sure you have sort of an honest person coming in the door." The Washington Post could have benefited from such vetting. Janet Cooke had lied about graduating from Vassar College and speaking Portuguese. To make sure staffers already on staff don't start fibbing in the future is more difficult, Lane says. "There's a small percentage of people who just aren't honest...and don't care that they aren't honest." Shut the door before they make it in. Editors who have dealt with plagiarism or fabrication often try to institute a reform or ethical reinforcement in the aftermath: Before Patricia Smith and Mike Barnicle resigned in the summer of 1998, the Boston Globe had a policy under which editors were to ask for verification of unnamed or unknown sources in columns and news stories. "These policies were not being followed" as stringently as they should have been, Editor Storin says. "Suffice to say, they are being followed now, scrupulously." Phone numbers may be requested, but editors normally don't call sources. Also, Louisa Williams, managing editor for administration, talks with each hire about the paper's plagiarism and fabrication policies. After Julie Amparano was fired by the Arizona Republic for fabrication in August 1999, the paper reworked its corrections policy, says Reader Advocate Richard de Uriarte. Corrections are seen by the entire newsroom; the paper creates "an electronic paper trail of each call, each concern, its resolution...by editor, by the section, that kind of thing," he says. The message behind these correction chronicles is, "Look what has gone wrong; look what can be done better." The Sacramento Bee had halted its usual brown-bag ethics lunches for about a year while it altered its pagination process. In the wake of the Love incident, Editor Rodriguez says the paper reinstituted the sessions in January. The episode fostered many discussions at the paper on what constitutes plagiarism. A "high-profile, unfortunate incident reinforces to people that we take the issue very seriously, and we'll deal with it very seriously," Rodriguez says. Detroit News Publisher and Editor Mark Silverman talked to editors about gathering suburban news after the paper plagiarized a local weekly in December. They determined that the instance was isolated, but he sent a note out to remind staff of the paper's ethics policy. The paper also will hold "at least yearly" brown-bag ethics talks. The San Jose Mercury News pledged to host a one-day seminar for new interns after Cragin's and Drudis' deeds were revealed. Executive Editor Yarnold says the paper will go over its news policies at the training sessions--"not just plagiarism or attribution, but to go through everything from when we name sources to when we name victims...and make some things clear that we thought were obvious" and the journalism schools thought were obvious. The Merc will clarify its existing plagiarism and attribution policies as well. After Love was fired by the Bee, his former employer, the Orange County Register, held a series of internal training sessions in its bureaus. Ombudsman Dennis Foley and Training Editor Larry Welborn led discussions on plagiarism and ethics, aimed mostly at younger reporters. Foley saw it as a "good opportunity to remind everybody that our craft and our ethics and our credibility...is tied up in this," he says. Other papers use high-profile cases to encourage discussion and awareness, as does Northwestern University. Ken Bode, the journalism school's dean, says the school would "stop the presses when anything like this happens in the real world of journalism," hosting ethics panels on the actual cases. "You hope that people don't have to learn the ethics and regulations of our profession on the run and on the road." (Bode was barred from talking about the Drudis case because of federal student privacy laws.) But the idea that a news organization would implement plagiarism safeguards seems almost silly to some editors. "You're talking about one of the most basic sins in journalism, and we have a very detailed code of ethics," says Business Week Editor in Chief Stephen B. Shepard, "and it does not say, 'Do not steal,' on the assumption that anyone who works at Business Week bloody well knows that." Some journalists may need a little reminding. "Maybe [news organizations] need to quit assuming that the basics are that well understood by people they hire," says SPJ's Fred Brown. "The other thing is to communicate with journalism schools to make sure they're teaching that lesson." Business Week does fact-check stories, but only to verify the names of people, companies and institutions, says Shepard. The rest is the responsibility of the writer. Most newspapers, with daily deadlines, don't see fact-checking as a viable reform. And given Glass' ability to fool TNR's fact-checkers--he built a fake Web site, gave fake phone numbers--it's uncertain whether that would catch a determined fabricator or plagiarist before a story made it into print. Since at least 1987, the Orange County Register has carried out accuracy checks. At first, the ombudsman would send out short surveys to news sources, asking how they had been treated by the paper, and then circulate the responses. Now, Foley sends letters inviting sources to call him or have him come talk to them. While it may help the paper's credibility and news practices, the policy is not designed to catch stolen words or made-up people. "It's not intended to be the internal affairs investigation accusing the reporters of doing wrong," Foley says. Besides, Storin and Lane aren't too sure a specific policy is the answer. "I think as much as it's important that we follow that procedure, I would like to think," says the Globe's Storin, "that after the agony of what we went through and the effect that it had on the careers...that this is the least likely paper where fabrication would occur." Says Lane: "There's sort of a tendency to look for procedural fixes for this stuff.... If we only had more fact-checkers," or a better flow of copy. The New Republic bolstered its fact-checking roster and developed a written fact-checking policy. "It helped," Lane says, "but it didn't create any kind of guarantee." Perhaps, Lane says, he should've been more doubtful of Glass. "If someone could never, ever show you the place he went to to talk to this particular source," because it was too dangerous or secret; or if your reporter "always has the perfect quote...that might be a bit of a warning," he says. Then again, some journalists are just that good. "Steve was so bent on doing what he was doing and then covering it up that there really, I think, in hindsight, was very little that could have been done prophylactically. It was just luck" that a writer with Forbes Digital Tool caught a lie. But don't journalists corner the market on skepticism? Maybe not when it comes to one of their own. Geneva Overholser, a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group and a journalism professor at the University of Missouri, says more skepticism may be what's needed. "At the very first suspicion you have to ask," she says, comparing editors to the spouses of alcoholics. They begin to suspect something. But they don't want to believe it.
W HEN SAN ANTNIO'S KRUGEL didn't give a columnist his proper credit, the paper gushed with apology to its readers. When the Arizona Republic fired Julie Amparano, it told readers on its front page and followed with a 2,800-word treatise on her ouster. When Rodriguez fired Love, he published a letter from the editor on the incident the next day. Most of the 30 to 40 calls and e-mails he then received from readers were supportive. "I think they were surprised that we dealt with it that directly and that publicly," he says. "Some of them thought we were being sanctimonious." While there are still cases in which writers are barely disciplined or where they are not singled out by their news organizations, other media are more than happy to name names. In July, the New York Times acknowledged that material had been copied in an obituary of British spy-trainer Vera Atkins. An editors' note, which stressed the article had been "based substantially" on Times research, said "five brief passages in the [June 27] obituary closely reflected the phrasing of an obituary in The Times of London." The paper did not name the writer, Douglas Martin, though other outlets did. Times Managing Editor Bill Keller says only that the incident was "resolved as an internal disciplinary" matter, and the paper does not usually name writers in its corrections. Martin still writes obits for the paper; however, the issue led Obituaries Editor Charles Strum to initiate talks with writers on how to appropriately attribute material in obits, which are often based on other accounts. Public embarrassment coupled with swift punishment may be the best deterrent to crimes of copying or out-and-out lying. It may also change the public's views: In an October 1998 survey by the Media Studies Center, 76 percent of respondents believed that journalists often or sometimes plagiarize, and 66 percent said they make stuff up. To some observers, punishments dished out today tend to be more harsh than in the past. "I think there are more serious consequences than there used to be," says SPJ's Brown. He feels the Smith/Barnicle cases "raised the bar." Meyer says some penalties in the last few years were "way too heavy." Many journalists thought Globe editorial page columnist Jeff Jacoby's four-month suspension in July wasn't warranted. Jacoby's July 3 column on the signers of the Declaration of Independence was hardly an original idea--the gist of it was zipping around the Internet. His version resembled several other accounts, including one in a 1975 book by Paul Harvey. Imagine if today a writer included factual errors in a review of an Elton John concert, and it turned out that writer had never picked up her press ticket. When Patricia Smith did so in 1986 at the Chicago Sun-Times, she received a lecture--ironically from then-Sun-Times Editor Storin--and wasn't allowed to write for several months. In 2001, most papers would launch a full-scale investigation into the matter as well as the writer's past works. News organizations' commitment to deal with plagiarists and fabricators firmly and immediately and the subsequent revelations to the public can only raise credibility and instill a greater fear in would-be thieves. But--and this is a big but--the industry is more than willing to grant second chances. The list of past offenders who made a comeback is long: National Public Radio's Nina Totenberg; the New York Times' Fox Butterfield; Salon.com columnist Ruth Shalit; Mike Barnicle, who joined the New York Daily News in March 1999; and Patricia Smith, who was hired by Ms. Magazine to write a column in January 2000, among many others. Of course--as evidenced by this story--those charges will haunt those writers, quite possibly for the rest of their careers. "It will probably never go away," says Barnicle, who adds that the Globe rescinded its accusation of plagiarism. (Storin says that's a fair statement. The columnist ultimately left amid fabrication charges.) "It's always out there lurking in some people's minds, not the readers', I don't think...but in the business." It is a heavy scarlet letter to bear. It's indicative of not only the gravity of the offenses, but the very small percentage of journalists who commit them. The surprising thing is that only one person interviewed for this article said that under no circumstances would she offer a job to someone who had made up material or stolen words. Says Rosemary Armao: "If I knew about it, I wouldn't hire them. There are so many good people in the market, why take somebody with that mark against them?" She says she can hardly even read Ms. since it hired Smith. Even Storin and Lane hedge. Each case is different, they say. "Is it a second or a third or a fourth chance?" Storin asks. Lane's answer: "If anybody ever hired Steve Glass in journalism again, it would be a very sad day.... If on the other hand, there was somebody who really was going through a tough time personally and broke down and once or twice, but not much more than that, swiped some quotes from somebody else, should they be banished forever? I think no." If he was in the position of hiring, he says, he would go over that person's background "with a fine-tooth comb." Dennis Love says he's "trying to just accept responsibility for what I did with as much dignity as I can and move on." He is freelancing for some trade magazines and working on a biography of Stevie Wonder. Asked if he will pursue a newspaper career again, he says he's not sure if it's up to him. "I don't know if somebody in my situation gets a second chance or not," Love says. "I could see it happening, I guess.... But I don't know the answer.... In the future, I think that I would like to." His old boss, Rodriguez, says it would probably be difficult for Love to find a job in journalism in the near future. But he's a believer in second chances as well. "He's such a good writer that you would hope at some point he would use that craft again." Judging from history, Love could find a second journalistic life. But, in five, maybe 10 years, when AJR inevitably does another piece on plagiarism, his name, along with many of the rest, doubtless will appear again.


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Kent State is my American Jerusalem. Ever since I stopped at the campus on a whim while driving across Ohio in 1993, I have made yearly pilgrimages to this sacred-secular ground of antiwar activity, where four students died and nine were injured. But I'm no nostalgic baby boomer, no former radical, no graduate of the counterculture. I was only one year old on May 4, 1970.
As I attended the 30th-anniversary commemoration of the shootings recently, I struggled to understand my tractor-beam-like spiritual attraction to this place. And I wondered whether my own generation can still learn from this canonical event in baby-boomer (and American) history. I left the commemoration convinced that Kent State offers us a compelling invitation to activism, clarifies the nature of Generation-X political paralysis and, surprisingly, indicates a clear direction for formation in Catholic identity today.
Those of us in the first post-Kent State generation, born between the early 1960's and the late 1970's, have yet to accept fully the invitation to political activism that Kent extends. As a generation, we have never risked ourselves en masse for a national political cause, as so many baby boomers did for or against Vietnam (or civil rights or feminism). Every major political issue with any traction in my generation, whether preserving the environment, fighting global corporate exploitation or defending the dignity of various sexual identities, has been a series of local, tactical actions. Politics in my generation has tended to focus more on changing our immediate relationships than on lobbying, marching, national organizingor even voting.
There are sound reasons for this difference in approach to politics between generations. Many young adults attempt to stake their claim to adulthood economically rather than politically. Most of us have never known a major war, massive economic downturn or profound cultural crisis. As a post-60's, post-Watergate, post-Vietnam, post-Vatican II generation, we are often skeptical that any large-scale revolution is worth the effort. After all, every gain can be reversed, and all secular or religious politics is, sooner or later, manipulation.
Yet in the self-satisfaction of our honorable attempt to avoid becoming humorless, resentful, burned-out activists, the memory of Kent State indicts our entire generation. Too often, younger generations think the lesson of the 60's is: Every attempt at large-scale change will fail. But the dignity of the antiwar movement remembered and mourned even today at Kent State forces us to add: Yet it must be risked.
Dignified protest, especially for Christians, is not carried out by the perfect, but by the brave. And it should not be measured in absolute terms, such as Did the revolution succeed or fail? but in relative terms, such as Was our limited Christian political action more faithful to Jesus than no action at all?
The memory of Kent State may yet serve to inspire the next generation to shift our emphasis in virtues: a little less prudence; a little more fortitude. In this way, a sign of the baby-boomer times still reverberates with the distant din of protest, forcing my own generation to confront the absence of signs of political activism in our own times.
I see only one genuine opening for us to respond to the risk of Kent State's invitation and to accept culpability for our political paralysis. That opening is our passion for spirituality, so often visible today in the desire for a rich interior life and a practical commitment to serving those in need. This desire and commitment deserve to be taken very seriously by all who theologize about or minister to younger generations today, in writing and speaking, worshiping and preaching. They are signs of hope for the church, evidence of the Spirit's fecund presence in younger generations.
Yet they are ambiguous signs. Often we are tempted to treat our spirituality as one more identity that we are free to don or discard at will, borrowing various elements from the world supermarket of religions; a cut-and-paste spirituality, a laissez-faire religiosity. Likewise, many of us retreat into the seductive pseudo-certainties of fundamentalism, longing for a book, a guru, a pope to save us from the complexities of our pluralist society.
What do these two approaches have in common? A consumer mentality. For laissez-faire relativism what matters most is one's freely chosen satisfaction. (A consumer-choice spirituality, glorifying the right to choose from any tradition.) For fundamentalism what matters most is submitting to a dictator of desires. (A couch-potato spirituality, passively consuming the religious advertising of one's tradition.) Both, in their own way, are types of slacker spirituality.
If we are honest with ourselves, whether liberal or conservative, our volunteerism is often restricted to local do-goodism, where positive results are immediately observable and our commitment is short-term and rarely linked to a larger political identity or longer-term national political movement. If it had been up to my generation, the civil rights movement might never have happened. We don't have much patience for slow-burning, national political work that can endure reversals, setbacks and disappointments over the long haul.
If we have to move beyond mere volunteerism and milquetoast spirituality, if we are to rise to the challenge that Kent State yet offers us, this is precisely the place for the specific human faces of the Catholic tradition to be made known. Catholicism bears a pantheon of modern saints who balanced spirituality with political action. Dorothy Day and Oscar Romero are just two whose lives are waiting for retrieval as modern, believable, accessible narratives of Catholic Christian ways of life. Having intermingled the spiritual and the political, they stand with many more as possible Catholic heroes for a generation still on the watch for heroes. It is time for a communal decision to lift up our spiritual-political saints as explicit models for young Catholics today.
For those of us born in the 1960's and 70's, this is the time for political and spiritual fortitude, for a way of being spiritual that resists consumerism and a way of being political that trades prudence for risk. For those of us who care about serving as stewards of Catholic identity for a new generation, this is our time to invite this generation to experience how spirituality and political work, union with Christ and social reconciliation, are two sides of the eucharistic identity to which Jesus invites us.
Thirty years after Kent State, it is time for Catholics to attend to what this receding sign of the times may yet teach us, and to respond in a Catholic way.


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