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A month's worth of Alex Beam
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A library and its discontents
(12/4/2001)
Asharp-eyed reader spotted this advertisement in a recent issue of Publishers Weekly: ''Major Boston publisher is looking for a Senior Executive Editor to oversee the development of an editorial publishing plan for the published and unpublished material of an acclaimed 19th-century author. This senior editor will be the `editorial visionary' of the product line'' etc., etc.
This mission of gratitude merits salute
(11/29/2001)
No one ever says anything nice about the French, perhaps with cause. But they are currently involved in a thank you project that is doubtless making them some friends and influencing a person or two.
Dershowitz rethinks his theory of rights
(11/27/2001)
Maybe everything has changed. Alan Dershowitz is starting to sound like A. Mitchell Palmer.
Don't forget to remember Ken Kesey
(11/20/2001)
In death as in life, timing is everything. Ken Kesey died on a Saturday, during a shooting war. Few noticed.
Today's news is tomorrow's history
(11/15/2001)
Two weeks ago, the History Channel broadcast part of a series on 18th-century England, featuring Columbia University historian Simon Schama. This week, it is promoting shows about Sept. 11. What's next? How about a television station that broadcasts 24-hour-old news, or perhaps the PastCam, an online video archive of events that took place 20 minutes ago.
Even if talk's cheap, speech is still free
(11/13/2001)
Acurious thing happened to me last week. I was addressing an alumni dinner, holding forth about the joys of cigarette smoking in high school. During the question-and-answer period, a man stood up to heckle me. ''I would like to give you the opportunity to apologize to us, your fellow Americans, for your most recent, thoughtless, columns,'' he declared, launching into a two-page prepared indictment of some of my recent work.
Online church sees prayers go unanswered
(11/8/2001)
It was just last week that I joined a new church, and I will confess that my intentions were not pure. I had read an article about Plano, Texas-based www.777live
War... what is I good for?
(11/6/2001)
One of the more fatuous observations that has emerged in the weeks following the terrorist attacks on America is: ''Surely something good will come from this.'' Is that really so? I find the premise so counterintuitive and uninformed that, by way of educating myself, I have compiled a little list of those for whom ''something good'' is bound to emerge from this global catastrophe:
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