Archive for March, 2008
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you've never read Moneyball, do it. Even if you're not a baseball fan -- if you're reading it correctly, it's more of a business book than a baseball book.
The book in a rough summary: The Oakland A's are a low-budget Major League Baseball team trying to compete with ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
In a significant portion of the journalism blogging community, I've witnessed the following themes emerge:
We're all going to die. We're all going to freaking die.
There are two types of reporters: Those who "get it," and those who "just don't get it." If you don't know what you're getting, then you ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
There's no need to read anything below this entry.
Below this is my depository of clips, just so I could make the Clips page you can find on top of the site. If you really want to read my work, you're better off going to that clips page so you can ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
BY DANIEL VICTOR
Of The Patriot-News
There was never much space between 4-year-old Grace Stanley and her mother, Louann.
They routinely slept snuggled against each other. During the day, Grace rarely left Louann's side. Grace talked, talked, talked, winning affection with her infectious giggle and near-permanent smile.
Grace was Louann Stanley's little baby.
She still ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
BY DANIEL VICTOR
Of The Patriot-News
NICKEL MINES -- John Fisher, who the hundreds of journalists here knew was Amish because he was wearing a straw hat, was fielding questions from the
Baltimore Sun and New York Daily News when his cell phone appeared to ring.
He excused himself and left the reporters searching ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
BY DANIEL VICTOR
Of The Patriot-News
Their phones, when they worked, wouldn't stop ringing. Their computers were flooded with e-mails and instant messages.
Nine Virginia Tech students from the midstate who were contacted by The Patriot-News said they were shaken, but OK. They spent yesterday watching the news, checking their e-mail and telling ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
BY DANIEL VICTOR
Of The Patriot-News
It seemed no one was able to reach the child.
He didn't talk much, or do much work in school. He was poor, black, and no teacher in the Steelton-Highspire School District had ever connected with him.
Then came his fourth-grade teacher, Kelly Mosby-Fowlkes. She, too, was black. ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
BY DANIEL VICTOR
Of The Patriot-News
Far in the background of Red Land Senior High School senior David Moyer's desire to take a male date to the homecoming dance without being harassed are two words in a policy book that have divided area school districts.
In the policies that aim to shield students ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
BY DANIEL VICTOR
Of The Patriot-News
In Derry Twp. elementary classrooms, the A, B, C and D grade markings you know from your childhood have been expelled.
Now K-5 students strive for a P, which stands for proficient. If a student gets a W, or working toward proficient, that's OK, too. That just ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
BY DANIEL VICTOR
Of The Patriot-News
News of job cuts at the West Hershey and 19 E. Chocolate Ave. plants in Derry Twp. were greeted with tears and anger. But at the Reese's plant yesterday, some workers said their slice of The Hershey Co. reorganization tasted much better.
"It's almost Hersheypark happy in ...
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