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When Associate Editor Roger Rosenblatt was asked to write this week's story on the nation's capital city, he had no trouble at all identifying a central question: Why does America hate Washington? "It has become a byword for the country's problems," says Rosenblatt. "People abuse it, make fun of it, and presidential candidates campaign against it. You ask almost anyone in this country to tell you what's wrong, and he'll say Washington...
...subject was a natural one for Rosenblatt, a onetime Washingtonian who admits to ambivalent feelings about the capital. Before coming to TIME in July, he lived in Washington for seven years, working as director of education for the National Endowment for the Humanities and, more recently, as literary editor of the New Republic and as a columnist for the Washington Post. In the summer of 1979, Washingtonian magazine named Rosenblatt the city's "best columnist." "I didn't always write about Washington," says Rosenblatt, "but you can't work as a journalist there without automatically becoming interested...
...native of New York, Rosenblatt wrote a profile of that city for TIME just before the Democratic National Convention there in August. But he found Washington "much harder to pin down." The main reason, says Rosenblatt, is that "unlike most American cities, Washington did not grow naturally - it was invented. It is the symbolic center of the country, a gathering point for politicians and powerbrokers and a place where people live...
...that astonished moment when the reckless clarifier carefully looks over his audience (or courtroom or stationery or press conference) anc envisions being born again. O hopeful pioneer. All he has to do is say a few words and the world will be new. He feels better already. -By Roger Rosenblatt...
...Roger Rosenblatt's essay "The Wars of Assassination" [Sept. 8] pinpointed the reason assassins and assassin countries escape punishment for their dastardly crimes: lack of outrage and resolve on the world, national and individual levels. The slain Ali Akbar Tabatabai was a cultured, pro-Western and democratic man-a human being of excellence and compassion...