Kurt Shillinger
Events are the primary currency of our industry. Someone does something, and then someone else writes a headline about it. Our stories today, however, illustrate a different basis for defining news. They all cover shifts in thought. Amid the war in Iran, Qatar is refining its sense of itself as a global mediator. A turn away from reunification might compel the two Koreas to set security on mutual recognition. At the end of another academic year, a 鈥渢hrow away鈥 mindset has stirred a 鈥済reen move-outs鈥 movement, turning the abandoned contents of college dorms into social abundance. Events matter, of course. But new ways of thinking make good headlines, too.