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...many others do, I believe Bristol Palin's pregnancy is a family matter. Yet Governor Palin decided to accept McCain's offer to be his running mate knowing her daughter's pregnancy would become fodder for the press. Who thinks it's O.K. to put a 17-year-old girl through this? Christopher B. Romeo, KNOXVILLE, TENN...
...have to admire Palin's handlers, who have created an image of her as a victim of the media. It allows them to justify Palin's not having a single press conference: She is just protecting herself and her family. How convenient! Janan Weinstein, CRYSTAL LAKE...
...genre they founded has lived on, and each decade has given it a different period savor. The 1990s produced slacker crack-ups like Girl, Interrupted and Prozac Nation. Now, in the 2000s, we have Hurry Down Sunshine (Other Press; 234 pages), Michael Greenberg's account of his daughter Sally's psychotic break, which she experienced at the tragically precocious...
...free nation, this is entirely possible. Professor Darnton should consider what this country would be like without a liberated, vigorous press drawing on the talents of close observers of enormous skill and perception. I have worked in nations where the press was not free—where it served as a mouthpiece of the state or special interests under Soviet communism, for instance, or a host of Middle Eastern and Asian dictatorships. Their nations, their people were far the worse for this lack of an unfettered press...
...points. “There are unfinished fights that we must win, and I want to return to Washington to make sure every American has the same great health care that I receive as a senator,” Kerry said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “I have always been honored to be the Junior Senator from Massachusetts.” Kerry is heavily favored to win a fifth term over Republican Jeff Beatty in November. During the campaign, O’Reilly styled himself as a more principled and liberal alternative to Kerry...