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...fitful decades - Kennedy, King and Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was fought and lost, Nixon resigned, hostages were taken in Iran - he was America's rock. In an era of big-news giants like Huntley, Brinkley and Chancellor, he had a special bond with his audience, born of an on-air demeanor that was both folksy and knowing, calming but not disinterested...
...those who worked with him said that behind his controlled on-air persona was an intense determination to be the best. "Walter has an almost messianic turn of mind. He feels so much responsibility; he feels that if he doesn't get it right, nobody else is going to get it right," one of his writers told the Washington Post on Cronkite's retirement in 1981. "And that is the reason he is number one. It comes across. People know that Walter Cronkite would never lie to them. Never. Because it is his religion...
...sign that the season for hard decisions has arrived. Obama continues to project an air of confidence about the most audacious undertaking of his presidency. "For those naysayers and cynics who think that this is not going to happen," he said on July 13, "don't bet against us." The next hurdle is to get a bill through the House and Senate by the time Congress adjourns for its August break. White House officials concede that missing that deadline could throw the entire exercise off track, because it would give opponents a month to undermine it. Says...
...Globovisión flap actually offers useful lessons in how the U.S. and Venezuela, the standard bearer of the Latin left, can bridge their Caribbean-size divide and help thaw the hemisphere's cold-war air. Clinton gave Globovisión an interview in no small part because the network has been on the receiving end of what it complains are the autocratic tactics of Chávez, who critics say has undermined Venezuela's democratic institutions even though he's been democratically elected three times since taking power a decade ago. This month his government is set to revoke...
...trauma of soldiers' reliving their involvement in a complicated combat setting. And their matter-of-fact recounting of the minutiae of the combat experience, along with moments of palpable pride in having struck a Hamas rocket crew or conducting themselves appropriately in relation to Palestinian civilians, certainly lends an air of authenticity to the report...