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...promote ourselves and our employers, to gratify our egos, and to make people want to hear more from us. (The lecture circuit, although sometimes ethically dubious, can generate fees ranging from $2,000 to $20,000 for a 45-minute speech.) Moreover, as R.W. Apple Jr., Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, rather delicately puts it, "doing television can improve your access" to official sources. The economics are sweet for TV producers as well. They know that print journalists work cheap, are well informed and are readily available to leap into the electronic maw. Adds John McLaughlin...
...phrase gerrymander, coined in the early 1800s to describe a salamander- shaped district engineered by Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry, originally referred to an amphibian of convenience, the creature of whichever self-serving pol was carving up the turf. Such shenanigans have generally been deemed dubious because American democracy is based on the premise that legislators are elected to represent geographic regions and communities -- diverse constituencies that share sewer systems and schools and workplaces -- rather than a specific ethnic group, economic class or partisan faction. Circles and squares were fine; snakes and salamanders and inkblots tended to be perversions committed...
...been writing for the New Republic since he was 25 (he is now 42), became a TIME essayist largely because he found the thought of writing for an audience roughly 50 times the size of his regular one irresistible. Before his debut, though, he was a bit dubious about this magazine's ways; he commented quizzically on our practice of distilling vast numbers of words into the tiny percentage that see print. Now he is part of the process: a recent Essay he wrote about taxes somehow never appeared. Is he bothered? "Goes with the territory, I guess," he says...
Actor Darren McGavin, host of the special, called it "an archaeological quest." Indeed, one conventional archaeologist and a few other skeptics were allowed a sentence or two expressing doubt about the reality of the ark and the Deluge. But their views were quickly swept away by another deluge -- of dubious testimony by "experts," many of them creationists who take the Bible's revelations literally and reject much of modern science...
...recent interview, Christopher pointed to early German recognition of Croatia as a central catalyst for the war. This dubious assertion, which downplays the calculated nature of Serbian aggression, takes some of the burden from American shoulders and dumps it on an ally...