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It’s no secret that this reporter has a crush on Thomas L. Friedman. Last year, I assessed the 2006 literary corpus of everyone’s favorite New York Times columnist and part-time economic cheerleader. And now, it’s time to look at his most notable themes and motifs of 2007—a year that was actually pretty depressing for Friedman-watchers! Without further ado… (5) Crushing Pessimism! Whoa, this one came out of nowhere! Granted, it didn’t pervade all of his columns—indeed, he remains...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down
...That is, unless you exploit it like Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who used Taylor’s murder as an opportunity to bash his favorite piñata: hip-hop. Whitlock has a long history of railing against gangster rap and the element of black culture it represents—the “Black KKK,” as he calls it. To Whitlock, the evolution of this genre is a cause of black Americas’ high crime rates and low socioeconomic status. He puts some of the blame for Taylor’s death, as well...
...dependent on kick-line dancing. A particular standout is Polk’s Ko-Ko, whose every emotion plays itself out exaggeratedly across his face in complete keeping with the play’s nature. Also fantastic is Adam Goldenberg ’08 (who is also a Crimson columnist) as the haughty, money-grubbing official Pooh-Bah. As befits the character, he manages to seem both dignified and pathetic in each scene. The interactions between Ko-Ko and Pooh-Bah are easily the funniest parts of the show...
...Miami Herald sports columnist Linda Robertson wrote this week that Taylor's shooting death "will reinforce negative opinions of football fans and recruits who were wary of UM and Miami." To their credit, the university and its president, Donna Shalala, are trying to clean things up. The recruiting standards of most major college football programs are a cynical joke when it comes to scholarship and character; UM football is known for being less scrutinizing than most 17th-century pirate vessels. But when former Hurricanes coach Larry Coker in 2004 recruited a Miami teen, linebacker Willie Williams, whose arrest record...