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...Calling 'Em Out" [Oct. 19]: Without enough real news to fill the 24/7 format, the media have to resort to half-truths and sensationalism to maintain an audience. Here's to the White House for fighting back. I hope press secretary Robert Gibbs keeps throwing fastballs high and tight...
...award-winning family drama that stormed Broadway nearly two years ago and is now on a national tour. Chicago theater's most celebrated export, David Mamet, will be represented on Broadway with two works this fall: a revival of his 1992 drama Oleanna and a new play, about black-white tensions at a law firm, titled Race. Meanwhile, hot Chicago director David Cromer--whose moving, teacup-size revival of Our Town is a megahit downtown--will tackle the work of that quintessential New York wiseacre, Neil Simon, directing revivals of his autobiographical plays Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound...
...senior officers with novelistic abandon. (Of the senior British commander, the exasperating Sir Bernard Montgomery, he writes, "His self-regard was almost comical.") He is willing to be graphic, though never gratuitously so, in his descriptions of battle. Maybe the most horrific weapon on the battlefield was the white phosphorus the Allies carried. During the bitter fighting for Hill 112, an English soldier tried to slip through barbed wire under machine-gun fire. A round clipped a phosphorus grenade in his pouch and ignited it. Writhing and burning, he became entangled in the wire and hung there, begging for death...
...billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that Congress approved last February was the first major legislative accomplishment of the Obama White House. Lately, it has also become one of Washington's most frequently tossed political footballs...
...next counter came in a memo to House Republicans from economist and former John McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who wrote, "Jobs keep disappearing ... and the Obama Administration's only apparent plan is to double down on a failed strategy for economic stimulus." The next day, the White House went on offense, hailing a preliminary report on stimulus job creation (30,000 jobs directly created or saved by the first $16 billion in spending). House minority leader John Boehner retorted that such exulting was "beyond the pale" because "3 million private-sector jobs have been lost since it became...