Word: columnizing
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...media,” Bush does not think in the short term. For him, the war on terror is “intergenerational,” and he sees himself as setting up the procedures and systems necessary for future presidents to combat Islamic extremism.In his Sept. 14 column in the New York Times David Brooks tried to piece together something of an explanation for Bush’s seeming obsession with the longue duree (and his failure in implementing his own vision). According to Brooks, Bush has been influenced largely by his experience in the business world...
...failed to find where Ghosh was "unstinting in his praise and admiration for the courage and integrity of the American servicemen and -women in Iraq," as indicated by managing editor Richard Stengel in his To Our Readers column. In all the gloom, surely there is a ray of hope resulting from the actions of the courageous troops in Iraq. Frank Bacon Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico...
Move over, Paul Krugman. Lawrence H. Summers, after a tumultuous term as Harvard’s president, will see if he fares better as a pundit, writing his own monthly column for the Financial Times (FT). Kicked out of his Mass Hall office, Summers has found a home across the Atlantic, in the pages of the London-based broadsheet that boasts more than one million readers worldwide. Summers—in Singapore for the annual summits of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund—said last night in a message from his BlackBerry that he expects...
...dawn. As the daily BZ would headline: berlin is berlin again. Beijing June 19, 1989 One man against an army. The power of the people versus the power of the gun. There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. "Why are you here?" he shouted at the silent steel hulk. "You have done nothing but create misery. My city is in chaos because of you." The brief encounter between...
...Paging Bipartisan Patriots In his column on Joe Lieberman's defeat in the Connecticut primary [Aug. 21], Joe Klein implies that all Democrats want to return to MoveOn.org's "extremist" vision of the Democratic Party. The vote against Lieberman was neither extreme nor an assault on bipartisanship. It was a vote against Bush's extreme policies - which Lieberman supported. Voting against extreme policies does not make one an extremist, no matter how the g.o.p. spins it. Kevin Fink Fort Mill, South Carolina, U.S. Bravo to Klein for noting that "the real alternative to Bush's Republican extremism isn't Democratic...