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"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." –Harry S Truman

Friday, November 28, 2008

Best Leftover Turkey Recipe Ever

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Waste not, want not. Taste this .
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Havoc for the Holiday

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The Mumbai massacres undermine our shaky faith in human nature as American families gather for loving celebration in the safety they always...
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Bargain-Hunting Home Buyers

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Bottom feeders pushed up the stock market this week. Shoppers should flood the stores for Black Friday specials tomorrow. Will potential buy...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

No Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving

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On the eve of our annual day of excess, we are all suffering from the heartburn of years of greed and over-consumption that a ton of antacid...

Obama View From Barbara Walters

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In the face of change, the timeless Barbara Walters scores another "get" with an exclusive interview with the Obamas, in which th...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Gates-Keeping

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With the imminent naming of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, the retention of Robert Gates at Defense will raise questions about exac...

Flying Turkeys of Yesteryear

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It's not every day you get to write a sentence like this: As Keith Olbermann was making a pumpkin pie with Martha Stewart yesterday, the...
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Monday, November 24, 2008

Two Presidents at a Time

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As the incoming president introduced his economic team and said there isn't "a minute to waste" in putting them to work, ther...

Rethinking Risk

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In all the replays of what went wrong with the economy, the recurring theme is the failure of risk management--by the government, Wall Stree...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Can Obama Stop the Panic?

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The Lame Duck has laid an egg on the economy, and nothing better can hatch until he gets out of the nest. Tomorrow the President-in-Waiting-...
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Saturday, November 22, 2008

45 Years Ago Today

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As editor of Redbook , I was about to make a lunchtime speech to three hundred advertising people at the Ambassador East in Chicago. After t...
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The Coming of a Can-Do Government

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In the wreckage of this week's news, it's encouraging to watch the Obama Administration taking shape with an emphasis on extreme com...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Wall Street Life Preserver

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A stock market starving for reassurance bounced up 500 points late this afternoon on reports that Timothy Geithner, president of the New Yo...

Making Scenes and Making Laws

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As pop culture goes gaga over teenage vampires , Washington's idea of infusing new blood is a Congressional coup with 69-year-old Henry ...

George W. Bush's Impossible Achievement

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As he serves out his time, the self-styled Decider is putting Americans through the most agonizing period of indecision in three-quarters of...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Obama's Women

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With the Hillary Clinton melodrama still unfolding, the news today is about two women heading for the Obama cabinet--Janet Napolitano as he...

Health Care in a Sick Economy

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As jobs disappear and economic anxiety spreads, the incoming Congress is showing signs of getting serious about health care reform, and the ...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Rivals, Retreads and Other Irrelevance

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As he picks Rahm Emanuel, Eric Holder , Tom Daschle and flirts with the former First Lady, there is a predictable chorus of criticism that...
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Bailouts: The Game Show

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TV news is beginning to look like the mother of all game shows with Washington contestants competing to pick a jackpot for the economy. Here...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Triumph of the Turncoat Houdini

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Today's escape from losing his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee caps Joe Lieberman's career of having it both...
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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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