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The following comment had been posted in the article; I am moving it here. AmritTuladhar 18:54, 9 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this the journalist that recently said on the NBC news that he was working full time on "the next big story" with regards to scientific understanding? from MrRewindMrRewind 22:51, 7 May 2007 (UTC) - If he is the journalist i'm thinking of, then are his intensions strictly journalistic? Is he willing to infulence the various institution matrix's in any way? What is he willing to be held responsible for? Is he just going to walk away if the result of "the next big story" is a religous edict calling for that person's assasination?MrRewind 22:10, 8 May 2007 (UTC) What is Walter Isaacson's opinion of the assasinations of Alexander Valterovich Litvinenko, and Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya?MrRewind 20:47, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Steve Jobs[edit]

The article mentions the Jobs-biography twice. Clean up is necessary (by someone who read it). Polmandc (talk) 05:56, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No one has eliminated 1 of the two prose mentions, but i'm not yet satisfied that the redundancy is without merit.
--Jerzy•t 01:34, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New Orleans CSA Memorials[edit]

He was a talking head for "MacNeil-Lehrer" this eve re the 4 mem'ls' removal (particularly of the last of the 4) which has been covered by other media as well. I found it interesting bcz i (perhaps distracted and not hearing it right) thot i heard him there as saying something much more equivocal than how it was reported by other mainstream accts i've so far found.
--Jerzy•t 01:34, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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