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CLINTON, CLARKE AND RWANDA: TEN YEARS ON
How about that Richard Clarke! He’s the bureaucrat-turned-book-tour celebrity who began his testimony to Congress by issuing a dramatic apology to the [More...]
A SATIRE THAT'S NO LAUGHING MATTER
"We're Sending You A Cluster Bomb From Jesus." I can't quite believe my old Loose Ends confrere Alistair Beaton has written a song by this name. But apparently so: [More...]
OUI? NON? HOW ABOUT "NEITHER OF THE ABOVE"?
“Vote for the crook, not the Fascist.” In 2002, that was the cheery slogan of French electors offered a choice between Jacques Chirac [More...]
THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE
In the old days, the headline "Germans Go On Offensive" would have caused palpitations among Czechs, Poles, Belgians, etc. But, in the case of this weekend's AP headline, Germans [More...]
THE FLIP-FLOPPER HIP-HOPPER
For a year or so now, I've woken up to a ton of e-mails each morning with the subject marked BUSH LIED! -- or, to be more precise, BUSH LIED!!!!!!! I'm not one who thinks [More...]
MONSTER
In 1943, the first musical with an “anti-hero”, Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey, opened on Broadway. “Although it is expertly done,” wrote Brooks Atkinson in his review [More...]
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RICHARD CLARKE RELIVES THE GOOD OLD DAYS
In January 2002, the Enron story broke and the media turned their attention to the critical question: how can we pin this on Bush? As I wrote in this space [More...]
BUT ENOUGH ABOUT YOU...
Valhalla, The Flu Season and The Ladies
There is a kind of playwright who glitters magnificently on the surface of life. He doesn’t probe for depth; he frolics in the [More...]
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A LEGEND SIGNS OFF
Alistair Cooke, 1908-2004
Less than a month after hanging up his microphone, the great Alistair Cooke has died in New York at the age of 95. Most Americans, [More...]
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