Word: forthing
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What arrives on my computer screen as the New York Times may be journalism, but it ain't a newspaper. A newspaper is what I hold in my hand as I sit back in my easy chair, coffee cup nearby, and flip back and forth, ripping out articles, snipping coupons and scissoring photos and obits for a bulging scrapbook. Handheld electronic devices that scroll text may one day make that pleasure obsolete, but they are not newspapers and will never take their place. Paul Wesel, BOSTON...
...Back & Forth...
...conference we were going to write character sketches that were a send-up of 18th-century genre fiction. It took us a week to write these character sketches, and it was fun. So we kept going, and before we knew it we’d batted back and forth 100 pages.3. FM: What was the time frame? JL: We started writing in December and finished in June. 4. FM: Was it all via e-mail? Did you ever collaborate in person? JL: It was almost all via e-mail. We decided we needed to take advantage of the fact that...
...Having watched rival armies fight their way back and forth across the country for the past 30 years since the Soviets invaded, Afghans have become adept at accommodating themselves with the likely winner at any given moment. Right now, the trends are not moving in Washington's favor, and that fact is recognized by the Afghan citizenry. "There's been a major shift towards acceptance of the Taliban," military scholar Anthony Cordesman told a congressional panel last week. He noted that polling in Afghanistan shows "the number of people who feel the United States has performed well in Afghanistan...
...Having watched rival armies fight their way back and forth across the country for the past 30 years since the Soviets invaded, Afghans have become adept at accommodating themselves with the likely winner at any given moment. Right now, the trends are not moving in Washington's favor, and that fact is recognized by the Afghan citizenry. "There's been a major shift towards acceptance of the Taliban," military scholar Anthony Cordesman told a congressional panel last week. He noted that polling in Afghanistan shows "the number of people who feel the United States has performed well in Afghanistan...