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...journalism is, as the columnist Richard Reeves has said, is to give people the news they need to keep their freedoms. People need to know what threatens them; need to know the dangers. In war or depression, people do not pay so much attention to a story like Condit/Levy. They want to know whether they are in danger of being defeated by their enemy, and what they can do to stop...
...book is the work of three formidable writers. Michael Thompson, a clinical psychologist, is co-author of the best-selling Raising Cain; Catherine O'Neill Grace is a former psychology columnist for the Washington Post; and Lawrence Cohen is a psychologist and the author of Playful Parenting. Their collaboration occasionally belabors points that most moms and dads already know. For example: "Children...silently sort themselves into popular, accepted and rejected categories." But it includes plenty of insights and case studies so that parents will come away with ideas they can use. A few key points...
...memory returns. The night of Clinton's first inauguration, in January, 1993, I went to dinner in Washington with a group of media types. I sat next to a well known columnist and television talking head whom I have always thought of as the Beaking Bird: With his alert, black-button eyes and his sharp nose, he resembles that toy perpetual-motion bird forever bobbing, like a metronome, on the rim of a glass and dipping its beak, quite pointlessly, in the water...
Former New York Times columnist Leslie Gelb recalls how, in the first years after the assassination, the Kennedy courtiers publicly stressed the President's resolve to fight the communists in Vietnam. "The books by Schlesinger and [Ted] Sorensen and the others," Gelb says, "all cited his interviews, right before the assassination, in which he said it was vitally important that we stay the course in Vietnam." By the late 1960s, however, the war had begun to look like a gross miscalculation--a threat to the Kennedy legacy. "They began to change what they were saying about Kennedy and Vietnam," Gelb...
...stay in power, he has striven to make himself appear above the process and therefore above the law. The reasoning that the love of the people should trump the rule of law is specious and dangerous. "I wouldn't say reform will be dead," says Thepchai Yong, a columnist for the Nation newspaper, "but you could say it's in critical condition...