Jeff Koyen and Alex Zaitchik, American ex-pats in Prague (the Paris of the new millenium) are set to take over editorial management of New York Press this week, the New York Times reports. Koyen, formerly production manager at the Press, will become editor, and Zaitchik, who was running an iconoclastic newspaper, The Prague Pill, will be Koyen's deputy, the Times reports.
The end of the world is right on schedule -- or so believe fundamentalists and the politicians who share their views or want their votes. Salt Lake City Weekly's Zach Abend writes about how some Christians see scripture and politics converging to bring on the apocalypse. He also shows how the current administration's rock-solid support of Israel might be helping speed things along, swayed by "Dispensational premillennialism," or End Time theology.
"Condoms break, or slip off, during intercourse. Women forget to take their birth control pills. Couples, caught up in a moment of passion, often addled by intoxication, have unprotected sex. And sexual assaults, ranging from brutal attacks to insidious incidents of date rape, are still all too common," Chris Busby writes in Rochester, N.Y.'s, City Newspaper. Emergency contraception, or the "morning-after pill," can stop those accidents from becoming unwanted pregnancies. Busby, however, finds out hospitals and health-care workers aren't routinely letting woman know about emergency contraception, even rape victims. "Unlike so many unintended pregnancies, this is no accident," Busby writes.
The thickest plank of McGovern’s 1972 platform, the one that carried the weight, was anti-war. George McGovern was the first member of the U.S. Senate to explicitly denounce U.S. policy in Indochina, and it’s safe to assume that were he still in the Senate, he would have been the first to denounce the Bush administration’s plans in Iraq. But as it stands, McGovern is no longer an elected official, and his opposition, and whatever influence it may have, comes now from the mouth of an elder statesman, a World War II hero, the collective imagination’s anti-Nixon transported into this anxious echo of belligerent Nixonian daydreams. George McGovern isn’t running for anything. He can say anything he wants. And here he is, riding a second wind in Stevensville, Mont., saying to Brad Tyer, editor of Missoula Independent, pretty much the same things he said 30 years ago: Stop hitting. Feed the hungry.
Nigel Jaquiss of Willamette Week and Pete Kotz of Cleveland Scene are awarded special citations by the Education Writers Association.
