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...Readers" column about the crossfire between the U.S. government and the press over the stories on the classified program to monitor bank records [July 10]. It was refreshing, in this era of knee-jerk vilification of the other guy's point of view, for Stengel to urge us to listen carefully to the debate, since power politics may play a role on both sides. As he reminded us, we are the judges. Audrey Mayville Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S. The press might have less difficulty withholding the details of ongoing national-security programs if it were not distracted...
Nervously eyeing the skies for Israeli warplanes, Hussein Naboulsi, a spokesman for Hizballah, took quick strides as he accompanied foreign journalists through the bombed-out neighborhoods of Beirut's southern suburbs. "Listen to me!" he shouted. "We have to move very fast!" He paused amid the devastation to point out the pulverized office blocks in the Harat Hreik district where Hizballah's headquarters had stood only a week earlier. "Now I have no place to work," said Naboulsi, the son of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric...
...always easy to listen to Senators bloviating. Yet last week Ben Bernanke, the mild-mannered economist who is approaching his six-month mark as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, looked as focused as a patient parent listening to a child. Tom Carper, a Senator from Delaware, took note of Bernanke's attentiveness. One departed Cabinet secretary, Carper said, used to appear before Congress and "sit there with papers spread all around him and read this and that." Not Bernanke. "You listen to everyone," Carper said in amazement. And so Carper couldn't help bringing up the obvious question: "What...
...Readers" column about the crossfire between the government and the press over the stories on the highly classified program to monitor bank records [July 10]. It was refreshing, in this era of knee-jerk vilification of the other guy's point of view, for Stengel to urge us to listen carefully to the debate, since power politics may play a role on both sides. As he reminded us, we are the judges...
...that’s not reason enough to liquor up and watch, listen to Bateman describe one of his victims to Detective Donald Kimball (Willem Dafoe...