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...media overinflating domestic crises to make good TV and copy. But especially when it comes to foreign affairs, and the lives of American sons and daughters, the media know they are especially vulnerable to charges of fomenting danger by doing their jobs, and thus alienating customers - not to mention important government sources they'll need access to later. Of course, it's not reporters' job to intentionally inflame bad situations. But it's emphatically not their job to try to calm them artificially. It's their job to report events as the facts indicate. Here, the facts are that...
...Bush did open one tiny window. Once again he mentioned getting the plane back, but by now this was a bargaining chip. The Chinese were not likely to relinquish such a prize, yet by demanding it Bush might allow them to save some face by releasing the crew but keeping the plane. By the time Rumsfeld issued his first statement the next day, there was no mention of the plane. "The plane doesn't matter anymore," said a Bush adviser. "It's destroyed anyway...
...There is the rub: as the exhibition's introductory placards, when they're not re-introducing Mrs. Gardner (what a great dame, look at how devout and open-minded she was, isn't Boston lucky to have had her, etc.), mention that although the figure of the cross does not arise simultaneously with Christianity, it becomes a strikingly powerful image by the Medieval period. So powerful, widely recognized and anticipated, apparently, that even a suggestion of a shape more or less in the cross family evokes the appropriate spiritual response...
...Freeman, who has become something of an archetypal psychologist-detective-figure in the past five years, with roles in both Kiss the Girls and Seven. Seven, on the other hand, actually had what it takes to be a gutsy, successful movie; good acting and good direction, not to mention an interesting premise. Although Freeman is undeniably irreproachable as the brooding, shrewd criminologist, Hollywood can do with a little variety. Let us just hope he does not feel the need to reprise any of these I-am-an-intelligent-policeman roles in the near future, especially roles that require...
...calling for gun control, Arenson’s editor’s notebook neglects to mention that California has the strictest gun regulations in the United States. Furthermore, his attempt to play the “race card” is totally inappropriate—the shooter wasn’t even in Arenson’s neighborhood long enough to absorb the alleged culture of racism that Arenson proposes is the root cause of this random act of violence...