David Halberstam

Detroit's Day of Reckoning (with Thanks to David Halberstam)

Steve Parker | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business

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Steve Parker

This week's bailout hearing signaled what looks like the ultimate day of reckoning for this country's once-great and world-dominating car making industry. All Americans are tired of the excuses.

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FBI Tracked David Halberstam For More Than Two Decades

AP | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK — The FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades, newly released docu...

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Report: FBI kept file on writer David Halberstam

AP | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

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NEW YORK — The FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades, newly released docu...

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Nothing is Different and Everything has Changed

Paula Gordon | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

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Paula Gordon

A friend and former Marine officer just forwarded this citation to me. It is a quote from the August 11, 2005 New York Times: "Writing about Vietnam...

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Con Games: Code Friedman

Michael Conniff | Posted 07.08.2008 | Media

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Michael Conniff

Something has happened to Thomas Friedman: he has started to believe his own bullsh*t. A fatal flaw has crept into Friedman's reporting that borders on journalistic megalomania.

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McCain Flying High Again; Obama Edging Past Clinton; Clinton Facing Mass Skepticism

Tom Hayden | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

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Tom Hayden

There is a basis for the otherwise absurd "cult of personality" charge by Krugman, which lies in the nature of the community organizing at the root of the new Obama populism.

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Thanksgiving Days

Beth Arnold | Posted 11.21.2007 | Living

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Beth Arnold

My brother Brent died of AIDS two days before Thanksgiving 17 years ago--November 20, 1990--when he was 34 years old. The physicians wanted to help but knew little to nothing about AIDS.

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