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...lesson paid off, as Brent has displayed an unwavering commitment to his passion for baseball ever since he was a child...
...Harold Kushner among them—all suddenly seizing the coattails of this rather obscure rabbi now six decades deceased, and adorning “The Prophet’s Wife” with glowing blurbs, introductions and even back-of-the-book commentaries. If there is a lesson beyond the theological to be derived from “The Prophet’s Wife,” it is that this is a genre worth reviving. Steinberg never finished his book, but its publication reopens the door for others to write their own entries in his renewed tradition...
...take on the Taliban [March 8]? The real question should be, Why are we fighting the Taliban? If we are victorious, then what? We cannot afford to continue propping up puppet regimes worldwide. Haven't we learned a lesson from Iraq...
...there's a simple lesson here, not just for TV but also for the rest of old media, including print. As no less an old-media guy than longtime CBS chief Leslie Moonves told the New York Times, "The Internet is our friend, not our enemy." Yes, new technologies can change old institutions and sometimes end them. But they can also enhance old media and even help those of us in the contentmaking business do our jobs. (I kicked around ideas for this column by checking in with TV fans who were following my Twitter feed, twitter.com/poniewozik....
...empowered ethnic and sectarian leaders who proved incapable of compromise and took the country to the brink of civil war. The surge of U.S. troops in 2007 bought just enough security and time to give democracy one more shot. Superficially, Iraqi politicians appear to have learned the lesson. The major parties have joined broad "national unity" coalitions. But the leadership is the same, as are the problems: how to share power, oil and land. Votes may not be fully counted until late March, and no coalition is expected to win enough seats to form a government on its own. Iraqis...