Apr 1, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The friends seemed uncharacteristically preoccupied as they idly chatted before ordering their usual Eggs Benedict. When the plates appeared —literally— on the table, even though the sight was familiar it was impossible not to admire the artistry involved....
Mar 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
C-SPAN has just broadcast the first half of a two hour interview with former CBS newsman Roger Mudd. The occasion is the publication of his memoir The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News. C-SPAN grand poobah Brian Lamb does his usual...
Mar 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Dith Pran, the translator who survived the killing fields of Cambodia, died earlier today of pancreatic cancer; he was 65. He worked as a photojournalist for The New York Times. He was made internationally famous when the actor who portrayed him (Dr. Haing S. Ngor) in...
Mar 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Harris’s novel The Ghost had considerable success in Britain where it was seen as a very thinly veiled roman a clef. The just-recently-ex PM in the book, Adam Lang, overlaps in almost every way (up to and including the same number of syllables in their...
Mar 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Much has been made —and rightly so— over Senator Obama’s speech last week about race. One would hope that the important speech Senator McCain made yesterday to the World Affairs Council in Los Angeles will receive similar attention. Senator McCain...
