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...sources or conjuring a witless conventional wisdom that has nothing to do with reality as it is lived outside the village. There is, of course, some truth to this. Washington is insular; certain local shamans are celebrated beyond all logic; some of my columnar colleagues have lost touch with everything beyond their armchairs and egos...
...most surprising news story in my lifetime is the Soviet Union's collapse. What is yours? - Ed Winters, Suffolk, N.Y. I was born in 1959 in Ridgewood, N.J., so if you think back, it's very hard to single out one thing in a lifetime of 50 years. We lost a very visible war in Vietnam. We won a very visible space race. Though the end of the Cold War and all it has wrought is probably as good an answer...
...author invoked the triumphalist narrative of the U.S. and its western Allies winning World War II and later toppling communism. First of all, the Soviet Union and the Allies won World War II in concert. The U.S.S.R. lost over 25 million people in WW II, whereas Americans half a million. Secondly, the U.S.S.R. was collapsing without very much external influence - succumbing to pressures unrelated to U.S. policy whatsoever. The greatest feats are not always American ones. Nodira Karimova Queanbeyan, Australia...
...hope that those with an overabundance of "things" will recognize that because of a pervasive sense of entitlement, many have lost all they worked for. Maybe as a nation we will develop a conscience and realize the harm we've done...
...border of Waziristan. Today's it's an active war zone. "We were in Bannu for a very, very long time," says Knox, who excavated there from the mid-1970s to 2001. "We scratched the surface. There's still an enormous amount to do and sites are lost more or less daily. It's almost a free-for-all, particularly in difficult war-like areas...