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...Ken Burns, the doyen of TV documentaries, notes that a city like New York is founded on "a sense of grids. You know, it's all about boxes. You live in a box, and you ride in a box [the subway] to go to work in a box. Then we have this wonderful newspaper that's boxy-shaped that has in it this page, which is my favorite page in the whole newspaper. And there are a set of boxes in which you kind of practice the wordplay of this particularly exquisite language...
...White House allies who are asked to discuss the case on television will be stressing points Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman made in a round of interviews this morning: that Rove did nothing wrong, but was right to cooperate, and that Democratic leaders prejudged the case and owe Rove an apology. "What people like me said during this whole investigation is: Let's not presume his guilt or innocence, let's let the facts get out," Mehlman said on CNN. "You saw a rush to judgment for political gain." Rove, indeed, appears to be off the hook. But with...
Daniel Kadlec's latest book is The Power Years: A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life, co-written with Ken Dychtwald
...best reporters spent the weekend gathering facts about previous social club leaks to put the incident in context. Published along with excerpts from the e-mails, the article was certainly guilty of “making” the news. Its structure implied value judgments (at least by my ken) about the club’s punch process and its members’ lifestyles. And its ending quote made the club’s punchmaster look stupid for posting the punch book online and for failing to password-protect the e-mail archives. Nowhere in the article was there...
...heartened by your reportingon autism, particularly the story of Hannah, who started expressing herself at 13 with the help of facilitated communication. My son Ken lost the ability to speak when he was 5, and everybody assumed he was very impaired mentally. He was rescued from his world of silence at age 16 by wonderful teachers applying the methods of facilitated communication. People like Hannah and Ken not only see the world differently but also are trapped by others' misunderstanding and closed minds. Your article may help change the paradigms of how these children are assessed, treated and educated...