Results tagged “saddamhussein”

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend...

The Harvard Crimson is mired in the controversies of copycat cartoonists, quote cribbing, and an editor who would like to hide in a spiderhole. It's not a good sign for the future of journalism when the editor of an Ivy League paper takes damage-control tips from Saddam Hussein. You'd think the Harvard kids would have learned their lesson after Kaavya Viswanathan's legendary fall from grace. But, in the past few weeks, plagiarism fever has...