The Anchor as Buddy, Confessional but Chill
Date: 02 September 2014
By JONATHAN MAHLER
Jonathan MAHLER
David Muir will officially take over for Diane Sawyer as anchor of ABC World News Tonight; ABC hopes that Muir's blend of youth, approachability and off-the-cuff tweets will attract larger, younger audience.
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East Meets West to Fill European Post, and It’s Harder to Tell Them Apart
Date: 01 September 2014
By RICK LYMAN
Rick LYMAN
News analysis; election of Polish Prime Min Donald Tusk as president of European Council is evidence of palpable shift in the way Western European leaders think about Poland and further evidence that old distinctions between Eastern and Western Europe are rapidly crumbling.
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In Interviews, 3 Americans Held in North Korea Plead for U.S. Help
Date: 02 September 2014
By CHOE SANG-HUN
Choe SANG-HUN
North Korea grants Associated Press and CNN interviews with incarcerated Americans Kenneth Bae, Jeffrey Edward Fowle and Mathew Todd Miller; men apologize for violating North Korea's laws and beseech Washington to send high-level emissary to negotiate their release.
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Democracy Backers in Hong Kong Face Tough Choices
Date: 02 September 2014
By MICHAEL FORSYTHE and CHRIS BUCKLEY
Michael FORSYTHE
News analysis; Hong Kong democracy movement must decide how to carry out its threat to conduct sit-in protest now that China has put onerous restrictions on Hong Kong's voting plan; students and organizers will hold meetings in coming days to map out plan of protracted protests.
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A. J. Langguth, Author and Former Times Correspondent, Dies at 81
Date: 02 September 2014
By NIKITA STEWART
Nikita STEWART
A J Langguth, former Saigon bureau chief for The New York Times who went on to become an educator and an author of nonfiction books, dies at age 81.
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Obama and the Warmongers
Date: 01 September 2014
By CHARLES M. BLOW
Charles
Charles Blow Op-Ed column fears that Pres Obama's deliberative approach to threat posed by ISIS may be drowned out by pressure from screeching war hawks and an anxious, frightened public; says situation is exacerbated by right-wing media that is continuing to yoke Obama with the ill effects of a war started by his predecessor, and is itself helping beat drums of war.
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