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...Shoo-In" [Feb. 9], columnist Joe Klein wrote that the President "has spent the past three years packed in political bubble wrap, sequestered from the realities of the public square." Wasn't Bush's father criticized during the 1992 campaign for being out of touch with mainstream America? Our current President's habit of being fed information mainly through his handlers keeps him not only out of touch with the mainstream but also willingly in the dark about issues and opinions other than those his close advisers believe he wants to (or should) hear. There is no excuse for Bush...
...like me, don’t remember Nader doing any of this, it’s because he didn’t. Even if mainstream media resisted giving Nader airtime, in the age of weblogs and interactive online media there’s no excuse for silence. But since Nov. 2000, Nader’s website has only added a handful of items on a very limited set of issues. Now that Nader has suddenly reappeared, however, it’s evident that he wasn’t being held captive somewhere—he was choosing to be useless...
...French schools in the name of secularism, integrating the Muslim community into French culture, and combating extremism fail to see an important point: the ban will lead to the very things it claims to oppose. Muslim girls who choose to wear headscarves will be forced to leave the mainstream society by lack of being afforded a public education. This will further entrench the fragmentation of French society. It will lead to a whole community of economically deprived, marginalized, ghettoized, and privately educated youth who feel antagonism towards the French republic for helping to aggravate their situation, instead of improving...
Members of the mainstream press covering former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean’s presidential run apparently didn’t sleep through their high school English classes, where they learned that compelling stories always follow arcs from beginning to climax to denouement. Being good pupils, they constructed a now-familiar narrative around the candidate, first building him into an outsider-turned-frontrunner and then relentlessly tearing him down. The storyline bore little relationship to the facts of the campaign, but after reporters and editors decided that the peak had been reached—roughly ten months before...
...like Time and Newsweek, each of which put Dean on the cover twice (by an odd “coincidence,” on the same week each time). In August, they hailed the coming of an antiwar underdog, and Newsweek set up the central conflict that would dominate mainstream campaign coverage until mid-February with their cover title: “Howard Dean: Destiny or Disaster?” In December, the author of that August story, Jonathan H. Alter ’79, who is also a Crimson editor, published a remarkably prescient column. Though Dean...