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...cover photomontage of Bush sporting a lipstick kiss mark and a black eye definitely got a rise out of readers. "When I saw how you defaced the President's picture, it felt like a slap in the face," wrote a reader from Colorado. That feeling was echoed by many, like the Georgian who declared, "Whether you like him or not, he's our President, and we're at war! Our enemies are probably plastering this picture all over their walls." A Missouri man compared the cover to "graffiti sprayed by an ignorant adolescent." But another Coloradan caught the cover...
...Enquirer reader? During my editorship, our average was about 4 million per week. So there was no one kind of person. But I always said to my people, Think of Mrs. Smith in Kansas City. I said, She's in her 40s, maybe 50s, and she has children. Our buyers were probably over 80% women because we were selling in supermarkets...
...might think that reading a long appreciation of Phyllis Jenkins would be as useless as learning Esperanto. But in the long view, everything has a use - including Esperanto, as more than one kolera leganto (angry reader) informed me when I made a joke in my last column. It happens that I?m a fan of the language, people; in my youth I had an Esperanto dictionary. And I know that Esperanto was approved as the world?s language by a majority of League of Nations delegates, and denounced by Hitler and Stalin...
...it’s not incredible; this is quotidian. Every day I drive up to a tragedy to talk with people in the worst moments they’ll ever face, because doesn’t the reader deserve a quote from the family as he shovels Fruit Loops into his mouth...
...chapters on how the government tracked and dealt with the threat from al-Qaeda before 9/11 fascinate and dispirit. Ten missed opportunities are identified--four during the Clinton era, six in Bush's first eight months--and each leaves the reader wondering, What if? Late in his presidency, Clinton mused out loud in a meeting that "it would scare the s___ out of al-Qaeda if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters into the middle of their camp." But Clinton's enthusiasm rarely translated into action. In early August 2001, Bush received his now famous...