Four days
A Presidential Medal of Freedom for Katherine Harris???? It was discussed
this week, as a form of assassination. Curious? Read about it.
Press Wages Political Fight in Iran, by John Ward Anderson, Washington Post.
You probably missed World Smash a Computer Day of Action.
Not home for the holidays: Coming of age in the kitchen of a Canadian
commune, by Paulina Borsook, in Salon. [A]s we all know, there's a
special sweetness to the first time . . . .
Twentieth-century history: Quantum Theory Tugged, and All of Physics
Unraveled, by Dennis Overbye, in the NYT.
Good (long) piece on communications strategy (i.e., "spin") throughout the
Gore campaign: Feeding the Media Beast: Leaks, Rats, and BlackBerrys, by
Howard Kurtz, in the Washington Post.
Foreign policy advice for George W. Bush and Conoleezza Rice, from Robert
Wright. Is Rice really blind to the distinction between the questions of
why you should intervene and how you should intervene? No, and her article
later makes that clear. But it would complicate her story line if, rather
than cast Clintonites as sissy liberals who see multilateral agreements as
"ends in themselves," she acknowledged and engaged their actual argument:
that in the modern world, multilateral support is often a prerequisite for
successfully pursuing the national interest.
