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...William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs, wrote a guest column for the New York Times calling on the U.S. to "start selectively disengaging" from overseas commitments, "a psychological turn inward" and a Marshall Plan "to put our house in order." Four weeks later, the Times's own James Reston argued that "the main threat to our nation's security ((comes)) from within" and urged Bush to build a "new American order." Meanwhile, Peter Peterson, chairman of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute for International Economics, is advocating "the primacy of the domestic agenda...
...fearsome, albeit fading, slugger when he surpassed Ruth in 1974. In contrast, baseball purists should cringe at the way Pete Rose, his skills long vanished, was lionized for his Captain Ahab-like quest to break Ty Cobb's record for career base hits. Collision at Home Plate by James Reston Jr. (HarperCollins; $19.95) is a cautionary tale about the dangers of hero worship. This joint biography of Rose and baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti -- the former Yale University president who banished Rose from baseball in 1989 and then died suddenly little more than a week later -- never quite works. The irony...
Baker, who believed he was doing just fine at the Sun, was less sure. The paper nurtured and rewarded his talents; its editor was like a father. James Reston, then the Times's Washington bureau chief, would eventually assume a similar role as Baker's boss. But before the relationship could be established, home-office politics required that Baker pay dues in New York City. Underemployed in the Times's vast, overstaffed city room, the "jumper," as he describes himself, guiltily plowed through Dostoyevsky and corresponded with his wife Mimi. "The Times felt like an insurance office," he observes. "Writing...
...lack of attention this problem receives is emblematic of our response to environmental dangers. Environmentalists warned us for years about the possibilities of the greenhouse effect, but politicians and the media didn't talk about it until last summer's heat wave. New York Times columnist James Reston has said that "the networks will only cover the environment when you get a picture of a forest that died." Will we need a disaster the size of Chernobyl to start thinking about nuclear satellites...
...Jason and the rest of our gang, Reston was a playground with limitless possibilities. During football season, Jason McDevitt's front yard was home field to the Michigan Wolverines. For people who knew little about life, we knew everything about sports. Street and Smith's was our bible, and the starting lineups of major college powers rolled off our tongues with ease...