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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER The next time someone asks whether character counts in a leader, remind them of D-day, June 6, 1944. In the months leading up to it, Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower assembled an armada of 4,400 ships and landing craft, 11,000 airplanes and 155,000 troops with which to liberate Europe from the Nazis. Then, having done his best, Eisenhower imagined the worst. Along with a ringing message to his troops, he drafted a different one in case the invasion failed. In it he said, "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt...
Since the plane of John F. Kennedy Jr. went down on July 16, observations about the Kennedys have mainly connected the family with calamity and grief. But the environmental work of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his partner, John Cronin, remind one that the Kennedys are more lastingly characterized by public service. In May I went out with Kennedy and Cronin on New York's revitalized Hudson River, a fluid monument to the devotion so many Kennedys have felt for the country...
...lesson to learn from this story. Epic as it may be, at least for nostalgic reporters, it is largely a case of mismanagement. Changing taste for news can hardly be blamed, since the company had been hemorrhaging millions for decades. At most, the demise of UPI should simply remind us of the inevitable disintegration of all things...
Movies work by making us think that they're real. Most movies accomplish this by imitating life, so we forget that what we're seeing is illusion. When they scare us, it helps to remind ourselves that "it's only a movie." We know that someone is filming this in a studio somewhere, with scores of people on hand to make sure the illusion never fails. "Calm down. It's only a movie...
...grew up and our 24-hour days became shorter, our interests in collecting stamps vanished, as did our commitment to stay in touch. Throughout the last decade, our annual summer get-togethers has served to remind us both of how close we once were and also of how distant we all seem...