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Showing posts with label withdrawal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label withdrawal. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Bedtime for Fred

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He could have aced the part, but the rehearsals were murder, so Fred Thompson's agent can start fielding offers again. The Law & Ord...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

A Sane Re-Start for the Iraq Debate

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After all the wishful thinking and political posturing on all sides, a basis for serious discussion makes the “tenuous case” for staying in ...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Out-of-Iraq Shell Games

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After years of blundering, the proprietors and enablers of this misbegotten war seem determined to end it the way they began it and waged it...
Sunday, July 08, 2007

What's Wrong With America's Newspapers?

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If we had been fighting in Iraq 50 years ago, we might have never left. Back then, the morning printfest was the only game in town and, from...
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ROBERT STEIN
editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.
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