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...Jennings' death that the age of the "big three" anchors was over. But he was the least typical of the celebrity anchors. You watched Tom Brokaw for warm confidence, Dan Rather for folksy feistiness. But you watched Jennings for the news. That is what his viewers saw in his marathon Sept. 11 coverage--a calm, cool guide who put the story before the persona, who knew that we needed not his emotion but his information, who was anything but weak. --By James Poniewozik
Monday August 15 marks the deadline, prescribed by the U.S.-authored Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), for a new, permanent Iraqi constitution to be approved by the National Assembly. Political leaders have been in marathon negotiations for the last week in an effort to meet the deadline. But what happens if they...
Private Screenings: Lauren Bacall, an interview show, and a marathon of Bacall's films air on TCM this month...
After midnight tonight, Gong faces a solid weekend of non-stop reading and preparing lists of cross-references with the earlier volumes. She hopes to begin the reading marathon on her walk back home from the Harvard Book Store. (She plans to carry a flashlight...
...Despite my reservations about the semi-democratic nature of Musharraf's regime, I am willing to give him credit for these positive developments. But I am also increasingly disturbed by some of his recent actions. First, he appeared to side with religious bigots opposed to a mixed-gender "mini-marathon" in Lahore and failed to condemn the police harassment of the race's supporters, including leading human-rights lawyer Asma Jahangir. Then he backed a travel ban on gang-rape victim Mukhtar Mai, preventing her from rallying support abroad for her cause. Under pressure from the U.S., the government...