September 2011
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“As Obama and Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. have admitted, waterboarding is...”
– Obama: A disaster for civil liberties (Los Angeles Times)
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Ernest Hemingway and Journalism
In his book about Ernest Hemingway’s early years as a reporter, Charles Fenton wrote that the author grew to value newspaper writing for its “opportunity to write constantly, for publication, in a medium which required narrative that was interesting and forceful.” I’ve long been familiar with Hemingway’s short stories and a couple of his novels, and now, in finally...
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Just an Ordinary Day of Death in Mexico's War on... →
Excellent work at the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. López is the first victim of July 29, a hot summer day much like any other in Mexico’s battle against powerful drug-trafficking gangs. Over the next 24 hours, at least 25 people die across Mexico in murders carrying the hallmarks of drug-gang hits.
