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...Panhandle Mishandle, instead of doing election postmortems, the news industry received a spectacular lagniappe: a fractious postelection campaign, made and played for TV. It was Monica with a side of Elián and a glass of O.J., polarizing and interminable, with disputed facts and plenty of lawyers. Elder statesmen James Baker and Warren Christopher, brought in as recount "observers," held dueling press conferences, like Cochrans and Ramsays. In battles like this, television news is a better divider than uniter: its formats, from "Hardball" to "Burden of Proof," are about opposition. A constitutional crisis became electotainment...
...elder statesmen on the council told me that it's very unlikely," Seton admits...
...takes some kind of undaunted courage to write triumphalist history in an age of revisionism and rigid identity politics. America's Industrial Revolution, once celebrated by statesmen and poets alike, differs markedly from a subject like World War II, with its clear consensus about good and evil. Ambrose's latest saga is not a historical blame game played by today's rules. Still, the author has more respect for the past than to pretend that the transcontinental railroad could have been built without financial corruption, treacherous working conditions, the blood and sweat of scoundrels and bigots, and the killing...
...enlightened visionary leadership were more prevalent today. I have the utmost respect for his bold vision in the face of his critics and for his faith in the ability of nations to resolve conflicts peacefully. I applaud TIME for extolling the virtues of one of the world's great statesmen. JASON FEHR Hershey...
There may yet be occasion to recall a quote by Proudhon: "The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the prudence of statesmen." My guess, though, is that it is already too late for George W. Bush...