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...Afghan campaign was one of the most brilliant and economical in military history. Nonetheless, one battle, Tora Bora, was a failure, probably allowing Osama bin Laden to slip away. Is this the stuff of apologies? Did Lincoln apologize for his army's letting Lee get away at Antietam...
...knew Kerry a little bit at Yale. We all looked up to him. He was head of the political union, and he was almost presidential material then. He looked like Abraham Lincoln...
...projects at Triathlete to go abroad again—to Baghdad, where the United States was waging its most controversial war since the 1970s. There, in the weeks before a sign reading “Mission Accomplished” was strung up behind President Bush on the USS Lincoln, Carlson conducted a series of meta-interviews on his own, speaking with journalists from a wide range of news organizations about the thrills and trials, dangers and dilemmas of reporting live...
...Burns, whose meditation on the ethics of reporting from a totalitarian regime forms a centerpiece for Embedded, are compared to the works of Shakespeare and the Old Testament in the book. In person, Carlson reflects that Burns sounded a lot like Winston Churchill—or was that Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg? Newsweek reporter Scott Johnson’s recollection of being shot at makes him, in Carlson’s words, something like a latter-day Stephen Crane. An Al Jazeera correspondent with a fastidious dedication to fairness is, somewhat jarringly, just like Felix Unger...
After releasing one of the brightest gems from last year, The Meadowlands, their first album in seven years, New Jersey’s the Wrens have been getting a lot of much deserved attention, making this a show not to be missed. Ester Drang, the Douglas Fir and Lincoln Conspiracy will open for the thoughtful indie popsters. Tickets $10 advance, $12 day of show. 18+. 9:15 p.m. T.T. the Bear’s Place...