AAN News
Willamette Week Goes Inside Islamic Schoolnew
Are American Muslims harboring terrorists or seeking peace? To answer the question raging on talk radio, Willamette Week peeks behind the curtains at Portland's Islamic Academy. WW's Chris Lydgate interviewed students, teachers and parents, reviewed textbooks and sat in on classes and prayers. "What we discovered was neither the conservatives' paranoid nightmare of fanatics sharpening scimitars nor the liberals' wishful daydream of Unitarians in headscarves. Instead, we developed a far more nuanced image. We found a deeply conservative faith determined that its children not lose their way in a me-first society--and a group of believers scrambling for sanctuary in a newly suspicious nation," Lydgate writes.
Creative Loafing Founder Plans New Atlanta Papernew
Debbie Eason, founder of the Creative Loafing chain of alternative newsweeklies, is planning a new venture after selling the chain to her children. She intends to launch a new paper, either weekly or biweekly, covering intown western Atlanta, appropriately called West Side Story, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. She tells the daily her new paper won't compete with Creative Loafing-Atlanta.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
12-14-2001 12:44 pm |
Industry News
AAN West Program Set
Guerrilla marketing, sales gurus featured
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AAN Staff |
12-14-2001 11:58 am |
Association News
Chemtrails: Messing with the Weathernew
Columbus Alive, in a thorough investigative report, reveals how secret experiments for both war and weather control are spewing weird chemicals into the air. The residue of the mysterious chemtrails includes toxic chemicals and carcinogens, sources tell the alt-weekly. One scientist tells the paper that original experiments with seeding clouds with aluminum oxide were conducted to prove that this should not be done. The same source cites rumors that the Bush administration will soon announce a program of weather modification and says that would be "political suicide."
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AAN Editors/Publishers Want Solid Coverage
Endorse Web site and newsletter redesigns
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AAN Staff |
12-13-2001 2:03 pm |
Association News
