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...would like to thank Michael Weisskopf for his essay on Walter Reed Army Medical Center [March 19]. I recently retired from the Army Medical Corps after 20 years, most of which were spent as a staff cardiologist at Walter Reed. No doubt, the notorious Building 18 has deficiencies, but Walter Reed is an acute-care hospital that has had to reinvent itself into a rehabilitation facility to care for soldiers with wounds that they never would have survived in previous wars. By and large it has done an excellent job. Failing to identify the excellence at this fine institution will...
Regardless, after all the money and attention spent on Couric, it will be much harder for a network exec to justify trying to widen the larger news audience. The journalistic lesson of Gibson's success and Couric's fizzling is that you can do well in the ratings with simple, unflashy news, and that's fine. But the business lesson is that trying to find new viewers--in the face of generational change, technological rivals and changing work and family schedules--to replace dying ones is pointless. TV-news analyst Andrew Tyndall, publisher of the Tyndall Report website, told...
Which is why divining the true motives behind the dismissals is only part of the battle under way in Washington. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have spent six years expanding presidential powers at the expense of Congress and the judiciary, from authorizing domestic wiretapping to limiting habeas corpus and changing bills through signing statements. Democrats, in control of both chambers of Congress for the first time in 12 years, are determined to reclaim what they can. And the U.S. Attorneys case gives them powerful new ammunition...
...rare moment of levity in Kaldor's super-serious pursuit of art. This can be traced back, he says, to the five months he and his family spent in Paris after fleeing the Communist takeover of Budapest in 1948. "My parents took me to the Louvre and the Mus?e d'Art Moderne," he recalls, "and I just fell in love with art." After Paris they settled in Sydney, where Kaldor would eventually take over the family textile business. But it was among the international avant-garde that he felt most at home. In 1969, Kaldor invited then-unknown conceptualists Christo...
Even the relevancy of Facebook seems to be waning. I generally find my time on the internet is not spent so much on Facebook. Maybe “mini-feed” really was the “jump the shark” moment for Facebook, and from here on out we’ll see it declining in importance and popularity – unless, of course, some other football teams decides that “White Nation” is a legitimate joke...