Might one overused punctuation threaten the integrity of modern prose? Noreen Malone thinks so, and she points to the em dash as culprit. But wait, “doesn’t a dash—if done right—let the writer maintain an elegant, sinewy flow to her sentences?” she asks in her anti-em-dash essay at Slate…
Continue reading …The tornado that devastated Joplin also scattered countless family photos to the winds. Facebook to the rescue. Two sites in particular, here and here , are acting as a clearinghouse of sorts for found photographs. Scans of the images get posted there, where tornado victims can spot them and eventually claim…
Continue reading …Casey Anthony’s mother had an emotional day on the witness stand today, crying throughout her testimony and at one point asking the judge to remove a photo of Caylee from her view, reports ABC News . She recounted the lies her daughter told to explain the girl’s disappearance, with Casey sometimes…
Continue reading …The death toll from the monster tornado last week in Missouri has risen by seven to at least 139, city spokeswoman Lynn Onstot said today. That makes this the deadliest year for tornadoes in the US since 1950, based on an assessment of figures from the National Weather Service. The…
Continue reading …News that 48 women are raped in the Congo every hour has led to understandable condemnation of how rape has become a weapon of war, writes Laura Seay in the Atlantic . The problem is that “a growing body of literature suggests that the prevailing journalistic and activist accounts of the…
Continue reading …Police in Florida had to ask a rape victim to stop tweeting about the attack, reports the St. Petersburg Times . The 24-year-old turned to Twitter about an hour after reporting the assault, which took place in the renovated bus she has been living in and blogging about: “Ybor- 6’2 black…
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President of the Asian Football Confederation, was due to stand against incumbent Sepp Blatter in the election at FIFA’s Congress in Zurich Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar has withdrawn his candidacy to be FIFA president one day before he is due to face an Ethics Committee hearing into bribery allegations. Bin Hammam, 62, the president of the Asian Football Confederation, was due to stand against incumbent president Sepp Blatter in the election at FIFA’s Congress in Zurich on Wednesday. “It saddens me that standing up for the causes that I believed in has come at a great price – the degradation of FIFA’s reputation. This is not what I had in mind for FIFA and this is unacceptable,” Bin Hammam said in a statement. “I cannot allow the game that I love to be dragged more and more in the mud because of competition between two individuals. “The game itself and the people who love it around the world must come first. “It is for this reason that I announce my withdrawal from the presidential election.” Mohamed bin Hammam Fifa Sepp Blatter guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …President of the Asian Football Confederation, was due to stand against incumbent Sepp Blatter in the election at FIFA’s Congress in Zurich Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar has withdrawn his candidacy to be FIFA president one day before he is due to face an Ethics Committee hearing into bribery allegations. Bin Hammam, 62, the president of the Asian Football Confederation, was due to stand against incumbent president Sepp Blatter in the election at FIFA’s Congress in Zurich on Wednesday. “It saddens me that standing up for the causes that I believed in has come at a great price – the degradation of FIFA’s reputation. This is not what I had in mind for FIFA and this is unacceptable,” Bin Hammam said in a statement. “I cannot allow the game that I love to be dragged more and more in the mud because of competition between two individuals. “The game itself and the people who love it around the world must come first. “It is for this reason that I announce my withdrawal from the presidential election.” Mohamed bin Hammam Fifa Sepp Blatter guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …President of the Asian Football Confederation, was due to stand against incumbent Sepp Blatter in the election at FIFA’s Congress in Zurich Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar has withdrawn his candidacy to be FIFA president one day before he is due to face an Ethics Committee hearing into bribery allegations. Bin Hammam, 62, the president of the Asian Football Confederation, was due to stand against incumbent president Sepp Blatter in the election at FIFA’s Congress in Zurich on Wednesday. “It saddens me that standing up for the causes that I believed in has come at a great price – the degradation of FIFA’s reputation. This is not what I had in mind for FIFA and this is unacceptable,” Bin Hammam said in a statement. “I cannot allow the game that I love to be dragged more and more in the mud because of competition between two individuals. “The game itself and the people who love it around the world must come first. “It is for this reason that I announce my withdrawal from the presidential election.” Mohamed bin Hammam Fifa Sepp Blatter guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …President of the Asian Football Confederation, was due to stand against incumbent Sepp Blatter in the election at FIFA’s Congress in Zurich Mohamed bin Hammam of Qatar has withdrawn his candidacy to be FIFA president one day before he is due to face an Ethics Committee hearing into bribery allegations. Bin Hammam, 62, the president of the Asian Football Confederation, was due to stand against incumbent president Sepp Blatter in the election at FIFA’s Congress in Zurich on Wednesday. “It saddens me that standing up for the causes that I believed in has come at a great price – the degradation of FIFA’s reputation. This is not what I had in mind for FIFA and this is unacceptable,” Bin Hammam said in a statement. “I cannot allow the game that I love to be dragged more and more in the mud because of competition between two individuals. “The game itself and the people who love it around the world must come first. “It is for this reason that I announce my withdrawal from the presidential election.” Mohamed bin Hammam Fifa Sepp Blatter guardian.co.uk
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