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Don’t get me wrong: FM is a serious journalistic endeavor, all the better for its in-depth, investigative cover pieces. Nonetheless, when Lisa K. Pinsley and I took the helm of the mag, we felt a burning desire to lighten things up. Actually, we—like all uppity, sarcastic FM editors—really just wanted to make fun of other people in public. But it turns out that mocking others (especially those who are probably better than you) is not easy. In fact, quality ridicule takes finesse, friendliness, focus, and a number of other words...
Preservation of the "gag" sometimes takes a backseat to an in-depth examination of Schulz's line, both as he originally drew it and as it reproduced in newspaper print. One page has just Charlie Brown's head in extreme close-up, the better to see the attack and fade of Schulz's elegantly simple penwork. So here's my mea culpa for the "crudely drawn" comment. The book makes it clear that Schulz was a cartoonist's cartoonist. His dedication and natural talent for the daily gag strip format has no equal...
...Still, the fact that today, for the first time, many American readers are beginning to buy books about Islam and the Middle East in large numbers, is a hopeful sign. Not all the news that people need to know is found in television and in newspapers; often in-depth information is called for. Lukacs, in "Five Days in London," points out that many of the citizens of London, in the days before the German air attacks in World War II, were living in blissful ignorance of the peril they faced: "The people of Britain [were] largely unaware of the immediacy...
...interested in your in-depth coverage of the war. However, I thought it was irresponsible and insensitive of you to portray our troops as "jittery" when they returned to Pakistan after a military mission. Of course they are jittery and scared; I think the American public is well aware of the human response to crisis. But these troops are American heroes. In the future, please just stick to the facts of what our troops are doing. KELLYANNE LITTON Bend...
...fact, says Harvard's Matthew Meselson, a Nobel-prizewinning biologist who did an in-depth study of an anthrax accident at a Soviet bioweapons plant in Sverdlovsk in 1979, "there is no theoretical or experimental basis to believe in any sort of minimum threshold." A dozen or even fewer spores could be sufficient to kill, he suspects, under the right circumstances...