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THE SHORENSTEIN CENTER ADVISORY BOARD Hushang Ansary Julian Bond David S. Broder Frank Carlucci Richard E. Cavanagh E.J. Dionne, Jr. Elizabeth Drew Doris Graber Carole Shorenstein Hays Stephen Hess Matina Horner Ellen Hume Albert R. Hunt Walter Isaacson Tom Johnson Marion Just Bernard Kalb Marvin Kalb Ted Koppel James M. Lombard Jonathan Moore Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Gary Orren Thomas E. Patterson Nelson W. Polsby Robert Putnam Dan Rather A.M. Rosenthal William Ruder Frederick Schauer Daniel Schorr Michael Schudson Bernard Shaw Douglas W. Shorenstein Walter H. Shorenstein Senator Alan K. Simpson Dr. Frank Stanton Benjamin B. Taylor Linda Wertheimer FELLOWS...

<p>Listening to pundits on the left, it's hard to know who is more evil--George W. Bush or Rupert Murdoch. The president, some passionately believe, tricked us into war, which is of course bad. But Mr. Murdoch gave us the Fox News Channel. You decide.</p>

 SHORENSTEIN CENTERFELLOWSHIP PROGRAMWHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP?             The Joan Shorenstein Fellowship on the Press, Politics and Public Policy is a one-semester research fellowship at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Fellows are domestic or international journalists, scholars, and/or policymakers who are interested in the influence of the press on public policy and politics.            The fellowship offers a unique opportunity for scholars and practitioners to share their knowledge and expertise in a collegial and intellectually stimulating environment. Fellows participate in weekly seminars with scholars, a luncheon speakers series with invited journalists or policymakers, and in other organized programs of the...

Left-wing "comedian" Al Franken got tripped up by some big fat lies this week. He's sorry he got caught, but smugly silent about making fun of countless American kids who have taken abstinence vows.Thanks to Court TV's Smoking Gun Web site (www.thesmokinggun.com), we now know that the Saturday Night Live leftover abused his position as an "academic fellow" (now that's funny) at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy in a puerile attempt to trick Attorney General John Ashcroft into publicly sharing his personal experience with abstinence.Franken urged Ashcroft to share...