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...straying too far from the administration’s message (i.e., covering the lack of progress in Iraq), Bush courted regional media sources. At the time, the Washington Post cited media analysts who speculated the move amounted to “shopping for softer questioning.” Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, admitted to the Post that the Bush administration did in fact view local media and regional broadcasts as “less analytical and more reporting,” but the emphasis on unsophisticated, uncomplicated regurgitation of presidential talking points was touted as a virtue...
That's something Giamatti, 36, never does. He's shy and literally self-effacing as an actor but fiercely committed to his craft. Married with a young son, he's a bookish, family-oriented private-school and Yale graduate and the son of the late A. Bartlett Giamatti, once Yale's president and Major League Baseball's commissioner...
...agreeing to allow China into the World Trade Organization, Washington negotiated a deal giving it broad powers to block Chinese products that "surge" into the market--no proof of dumping or other wrongdoing required. As elections draw near, pressure to use those powers could come from people like Doug Bartlett. His father started Bartlett Manufacturing, a circuit-board maker in Cary, Ill., in 1952. By 2000, the family business had $22 million in sales and employed 180 people...
Since that banner year, the company has been in free fall. Bartlett says cheap Chinese imports have driven down both sales and his labor force to half their former levels. He blames China's "manipulated" currency and subsidized exports. Now he faces the stark choice of abandoning his community and moving operations abroad, or lobbying for more protection. "We hope to hang on until somebody comes to their senses in Washington," he says, "[but] I don't hold out much hope." And even if Washington wants to protect him, it doesn't have much ammunition to use against China. --With...
...possible for a society to be as gloomy as the one we imagine the Puritans inhabited. Surely extreme asceticism is as doomed a societal ethos as extreme hedonism. This suspicion drove me to e-mail David D. Hall ’58, the Divinity School’s Bartlett Professor of New England Church History...