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...between his "Commander in Chief moment" and his "pastor-in-chief role," as various TV pundits undertook to do while waiting for President Barack Obama to speak at a memorial service Tuesday for the men and women killed last week in the massacre at Fort Hood. Televised speeches now come larded in so much analysis, before and after, that it becomes almost impossible to connect with them in a genuine, visceral way. (See pictures from Fort Hood...
...9/11 war - the ninth and certainly not the last - the President also stressed that Americans of this era require no old newsreels or cracked-glass negatives to find figures worthy of gratitude and a little awe. "This generation has more than proved itself the equal of those who have come before. We need not look to the past for greatness, because it is before our very eyes," the President said...
...Simple truths are often the best. But even these, on television, come swimming now against a current of expectations: Is this line a signal about future troop levels? Is that paragraph a veiled play for bipartisan support on health care? Is the tone appropriately pastoral in this section and sufficiently martial in the next? TV's original power was its immediacy, its you-are-there quality. More and more, it seeks instead to mediate. A nation of citizens is invited to become a culture of critics...
...warning from the International Energy Agency (IEA), an intergovernmental energy watchdog based in Paris, could add extra weight to the negotiations leading up to the climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month, when leaders will attempt to come to an agreement on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol's limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. "Saving the planet cannot wait," reads the agency's annual World Energy Outlook report, which was released on Tuesday. "The time to act has arrived." (See pictures of new ways to boost energy efficiency...
...expected next week, go against Boere, Christiansen intends to argue that extenuating circumstances surrounding the killings could mean the acts do not constitute murder under Germany's legal system. With the trial scheduled to run through mid-December, for the families of Boere's victims, a judgment can't come soon enough...