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SOCIETY BLOGS: Amateur online columnists are giving big media a shake...
Blogger's Revenge Amateur scribblers posting on the Web are becoming the tails that wag the media...
Once Tenet steps down, his acting successor will be Deputy Director of Intelligence John McLaughlin, a career analyst. It is a cliche to call McLaughlin unassuming and modest; it is more telling to describe him as deeply analytical and alert to the ambiguities of his trade. An amateur magician, he is especially adept at sleight of hand, a skill that helped win him the nickname "Merlin...
...Reagan revived his acting career. The General Electric Theater, with Reagan as host from 1954 to 1962, dominated the Sunday-night ratings. But what changed Reagan was his tours of the GE plants. Later, Reagan's opponents often underestimated him, dismissing him as "just an actor," an amateur lacking political experience. What they failed to see was that although Reagan had not spent much time in conventional politics, he had gained both skill and experience in what was to become the politics of the TV age, the politics of electronic images and symbols. Reagan once figured that in his eight...
After the 2004 amateur draft, many scouts, like Arizona Diamondbacks scouting director Tom Rizzo, said they were impressed with the Ivy players’ baseball sense and “coachability...