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  • The yacht vs. the pickup truck

    08/01/2010 9:20:34 AM PDT · by jpl · 23 replies · 1+ views
    Boston.com ^ | Sunday August 1, 2010 | Joan Vennochi
    DEMOCRAT JOHN Kerry sets sail in a $7 million yacht built in New Zealan d. Republican Scott Brown hits the campaign trail in a GMC pickup truck with 200,000 miles on it. From Newport, R.I., — where Kerry’s “Isabel’’ was berthed before heading to Nantucket — to Rhinebeck, N.Y. — where Chelsea Clinton will marry in a mansion modeled after Versailles — today’s Democrats are looking more like Louis XVI than Tip O’Neill.
  • Watts: 'BBC tried to mould my story'

    08/13/2003 5:04:14 PM PDT · by swilhelm73 · 3 replies · 176+ views
    The Guardian ^ | Wednesday August 13, 2003 | Jason Deans and Julia Day
    Newsnight reporter Susan Watts today denounced the BBC's "attempts to mould" her stories in what she believed was a "misguided strategy" to "corroborate" Andrew Gilligan's controversial report on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. In an extraordinary development at the Hutton inquiry today, Watts revealed she felt compelled to seek separate legal representation because of pressure from her BBC managers to reveal David Kelly as her main source in order to corroborate Gilligan's story - a move she felt "was misguided and false". When the inquiry counsel, James Dingemans QC, had completed his questioning of her today, Watts said she...