Is that the first three quarters of a good game are meaningless. The teams spend three quarters feeling one another out, then in the fourth quarter everything happens. Sometimes, admittedly, a game is decided in the third quarter. But that’s…
The Times’ William Rhoden has done a fine column on the dark side of the thoroughbred industry, (as called for here some days ago) including massive slaughter. Kudos to Rhoden and the Times. Will the networks follow? Or does Barbaro’s…
On C-Span today, an executive for Amnesty International warns that 1 million men will enter Germany next month for the World Cup, likely resulting in an increase in trafficking of women. The Amnesty International web site speaks of the likelihood…
Richard Engel’s report last night on the NBC Nightly News from an orphanage in Iraq. A beautiful story, without attitudinizing or agenda, just a big open heart. Want to understand the suffering we have precipitated—check it out.
The shoe being on the other foot, Tim Russert of NBC took the opportunity of being interviewed by Brian Lamb on Washington Journal this morning to complain about an interview of him that the Times Magazine ran on Mother’s Day….
Right now we’re in a Hillary moment, already discussing whether she will be the nominee, and I hear Democratic friends say, “Hillary’s baggage,” and worrying about the distraction it could cause. Yesterday a friend said to me, “Those Clinton haters…
caption The keen reader will note that I complain about having gone to Harvard, all the way to the bank. O.K. But I was a University of Michigan student trapped in a Harvard student’s body. Here’s my latest complaint. According…