On Thursday night, journalist Dahr Jamail spoke to a group of about 300 on campus, sharing his personal accounts of his eight months in Iraq.
A main focus of his talk being the media's coverage of the war, he spent more than 10 minutes criticizing the April 3 Daily Texan story "Young vets recount deployments," which was the second in a series about students who have served or are serving in Iraq.
New home sales drop 0.6 percent in June (AP)
AP - Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, more proof that the worst housing slump in decades is getting deeper.
Survey: Corporations hold out on Vista
Sixty percent of IT administrators have no plans to deploy Vista despite service pack 1, which fixed the operating systems problems, according to a survey of 1,100 IT managers. The survey,...
Amazon’s S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?
Over the weekend Amazon’s S3 storage service was down for an extended period and a bunch of Web 2.0 sites lost avatars, images and other items on their sites. Since enterprises...
Virgin Mobile jumps on flat rate bandwagon
Virgin Mobile USA will now offer a flat-rate, unlimited calling plan to compete with the big four cell phone operators in the U.S. Starting July 1, the new prepaid service called "Totally...
Wis. site where 6 were killed to be demolished (AP)
AP - The home where six young people died when a jealous off-duty sheriff's deputy went on a shooting rampage eight months ago has been likened to an infection in this small northern...
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