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...side. Journalism is at its best when it’s patient. With the blog and hydraulics of cable news, there’s pressure for "Now, now! Give it to us live!" You don’t have time to go dig. Digging is the big thing. Katherine Graham [head of the Post during Watergate], she recapped [Watergate]: "keep laughing, keep digging, keep loving—beware the demon pomposity...
...blast was, it punctuated a scary fact: the rules that governed the nuclear road during the cold war and its immediate aftermath have become irrelevant, replaced by the law of the jungle--every state, rogue or otherwise, for itself. The risk now, says former Clinton Administration Defense Department official Graham Allison, is the emergence of a more dangerous nuclear age. Pyongyang's test, says Allison, threatens to set off a "cascade" of nations seeking the ultimate weapon. "The North Korean test blew a hole in the nonproliferation regime of Northeast Asia," says Allison. "I think this is bad news...
...blast, President Bush said, "The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or nonstate entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action." That was an explicit embrace of Graham Allison's concept of "nuclear accountability." Thus, according to Allison, if Kim Jong Il were to sell a weapon to bin Laden and that weapon were used against the U.S. or one of its allies, then the principle would require the U.S. to "treat this precisely like a nuclear-tipped...
...during the climax of the play. All in all, though, the poise of the leading actors—who almost always manage to speak with the right balance of dandified aplomb and thoughtful sincerity—and the excellent support provided by characters like Cecil Graham (Zachary B. S. Sniderman ’09), make the production a thoroughly beguiling one. Despite some imperfections, the cast and crew do remarkable justice to Oscar Wilde’s particular manner of laying humans’ vices bare, one quotable line at a time...
...With reporting by Adam Graham-Silverman/Long Valley