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...rationalization as wilfully ludicruous and self-centered as any of the others people use to feel safe. And, apparently, just as empty. Anthrax exposure has now been reported at the offices of supermarket-tabloid publisher American Media, NBC News (via a letter addressed to Tom Brokaw which exposed his assistant) and, presumptively, ABC News (a producer's 7-month-old baby came down with the illness after visiting the offices, though no link has been proven). The media isn't the only target off the anthrax mailings, which have also hit a Microsoft office and the offices of Senate majority...
...both. But a big part of the reason, if we're to be honest, is that we simply don't want to die. And call it inappropriate or laudable, that's what we were doing before we started shaking our mail for suspicious powder. Today you have Tom Brokaw clenching back purple rage on his own newscast and journalists around the country imagining their own kids in the position of that ABC producer's baby. (My own two-month-old visited my office a couple of weeks ago. He's doing fine; his dad's overactive, morbid imagination - that...
...this assumes a well-thought-out strategy on the part of the mail bombers. That's a big assumption. The mailings don't seem to be the work of an especially sophisticated mind; the attacker(s) were apparently at least dumb enough to believe that people like Tom Brokaw and Tom Daschle open their own mail. (You have to wonder, in fact, if some moron didn't target a group of supermarket tabloids in Florida simply because the parent company's name was American Media - look! it's the headquarters of the American media!) One of the many offenses...
...music, food and lessons on bookbinding. Whom has Bush picked as opening acts for this bookfest? John Adams biographer David McCullough, novelist Gail Godwin (Evensong), playwright Larry L. King (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), short-story writer J. California Cooper, historian John Hope Franklin and TV anchor Tom Brokaw (The Greatest Generation). Brokaw, for one, practices reading out loud...
...executive at the time. He approached Bruckheimer, who says he was intrigued by "a period that had a lot of innocence and a lot of brutality at the same time." The concept now seems like a no-brainer; Steven Spielberg (with Saving Private Ryan) and NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw (in his Greatest Generation books) have spun America's World War II nostalgia into gold, but market research for Pearl Harbor showed that the desirable high-moviegoing audience of ages 19 to 24 generally had no idea what Pearl Harbor...