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Purists may say that in an era of niche hits, we are losing our cultural lingua franca, our national watercooler. In the New York Times, SUNY Buffalo American-studies professor Elayne Rapping wrote that the fracturing of TV has created a "craving for the culture that used to unify us as a nation." But really the watercooler has just moved. Online, fans can bond with thousands of like-minded viewers rather than just a few co-workers. We don't all sit en masse for Must-See TV, but cultural moments - from late-night TV to the news to American...
...recently renegotiated an agreement with the United Auto Workers. How much is that going to save Ford? Catherine Desoe NEW YORK CITY...
...help us. We are the Salem judges of our own time." -Pat Buchanan, arguing that Demjanjuk's 1988 conviction in Israel was the result of a witch hunt. (New York Post, March...
...Ivan the Terrible walked out a free man." - Efraim Zuroff, director of the Israeli office of the Simon Wiesenthal Institute, speaking after Demjanjuk's 1993 release. (New York Times, July...
...recent months that those reforms are still a long ways off. "It used to be the case that whatever the negative developments and systematic smothering of dissent, there were always some signs of hope and potential advances on other fronts," says Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher with the New York-based Human Rights Watch. "But recently the good news has been very few and far between. There has been a total lack of progress on legal reform, the media, rural reform, labor. These issues were very much carrying forward hope for opening up of Chinese society, but now there...