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...Joel Stein wheedled an invitation to participate in an event at a mosque, Jewish temple or Hindu shrine and produced a column similar to the one he wrote about Saddleback Church, he would probably lose his job [July 27]. So why is it O.K. to generalize one small event at one church on one night into an indictment of Christians, especially Evangelicals? In America, we have freedom not only of religion but also of taste and style and, yes, even humor. But what can possibly make Stein's humor superior to anybody else's? There have always been scoffers...
...became even more attuned to the arcs and patterns of history. Indeed, I became hopelessly addicted to the Long View. Last fall, as Wall Street crashed and a very grim New York City future looked very plausible, my historian's tic kicked in again. In my New York magazine column I compulsively imagined the present from the future as a memory of the recent past...
Cohen, Richard • self-pitying column by is appropriately savaged...
...devoting a third of his time to working to get a health bill passed. On July 22, Obama was struck by Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein's contention in the morning paper that even an imperfect health-reform plan beats the status quo. The President circulated the column to his senior staff, Emanuel recalls, declaring, "This is required reading." And that night at his prime-time news conference, Obama repeated Pearlstein's argument. Top aides say he spends at least two hours a day in meetings and on the phone with key members of Congress, particularly those on the Senate...
...left Newsday in 2005 and now write your column online. Do you think there's a viable future for investigative reporting on the Internet? I think, ironically, I'm having more of an influence now than I ever had at Newsday. There are so many disaffected people who want an outlet, and the mainstream media is not doing the job that it should be doing. I could not have succeeded without the Internet, without access to all that information or without people being able to contact me so easily...