Word: columnist
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...Columnist Charles Krauthammer's "Three Cheers for the Bush Doctrine" [March 14] was narrow-minded and premature. We can't judge at this early stage whether democracy will take hold in the Middle East. Terrorism is on the rise. We have alienated our allies. At home we are cutting funding for basic programs. I for one am not cheering...
Welch, validating in part the in-studio analysis of U.S. College Hockey Online columnist and ESPN college hockey correspondent Adam Wodon during the NCAA tournament selection show. Wodon spent the better portion of his Harvard-related air time bashing the Crimson defense for hanging netminder Dov Grumet-Morris out to dry in the ECAC final, won by Cornell 3-1. He was right—Harvard’s blueliners had played below their potential for the most part. But hearing it from Wodon, whose passion for the Big Red is among college hockey’s worst kept secrets...
...behind the Bush Administration's efforts. I fear, however, that in about five years the Americans are going to regret that we did not begin in the early '90s to use our greatest force to oppose Islamist extremists. Cherry Bethea El Dorado Hills, California, U.S. Those Snap Decisions Columnist Joe Klein's "The Blink Presidency" [Feb. 28] persuasively captured George W. Bush's tendency to pursue both domestic and foreign policies on the basis of "instantaneous, subconscious decision making." Unfortunately, this is the same tendency that characterizes addicted gamblers. But the stakes, as in the Iraq fiasco, have turned...
...want to stay out of any coalition," she said. "We will continue to create a short circuit for everyone in this bipolar system." The Prime Minister is still likely to court her, though. "Berlusconi loves [Mussolini] because she is so good at the spectacle of politics," says La Repubblica columnist Filippo Ceccarelli. But if tiny parties like hers can keep their outsized influence, Berlusconi may no longer find that spectacle so edifying...
...Ponte's indictment charges him with individual criminal responsibility, as commander, for the unlawful killing by Croatian troops of at least 150 Serbs, and the forced expulsion of at least 150,000 others. But to many in Croatia he's a national hero. Damir Grubisa, a columnist for the Novi List daily, fears that Brussels' ultimatum could do more to push Croatia still further away from the E.U. "Extremist nationalism is on the rise. The E.U. decision created a lot of collateral damage here," he says