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...both offense and defense, we Americans have done what we?ve always done when we want results: we turn to specialists. Zoologists who argue that dogs have the greatest variation in size of any species have obviously never seen a pro football team where you can fit three placekickers into the pants of one defensive tackle.? Fortunately, territorial boundaries on the playing field are so rigorously enforced that the two almost never encounter each other...
...Mauldin and the fellow soldiers he depicted for American military newspapers [June 18, 1945]. Private Mauldin's famous drawings showed folks at home what it was like to be in the trenches. Some of the descriptions applied to Mauldin's 45th Infantry Division soldiers, Willie and Joe, would also fit the experiences of the American service members chosen as TIME's 2003 Person of the Year...
...acts prematurely in writing its proverbial “first draft of history.” Seeking to give current events the narrative clarity of a history book, journalists are quick to impose patterns and generalizations to help them tell a story. Often, the media adapt the facts to fit their narrative, rather than the other way around. Take the story of Al Gore’s famous “exaggerations,” first reported in The New York Times and Washington Post. That strange beast, the press, had determined early on in 2000 that Gore?...
...fit as I used to be,” Weigel said. “I’m not as sharp as I used to be and I don’t think I have any right to be angry about that...
...Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” reads the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. As an undergraduate at Harvard University, I fit the description: I’m tired just thinking about all the Ec 10 reading I have to do, I’ll be poor if I don’t start eating at Annenberg more, and tonight I’ll huddle over my computer hoping to be free from that history paper that I have to write. But I am from Tokyo, and despite all this...