Author: DXO
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Nixon on Reagan
Here’s a second take on recently-unearthed text from Nixon and Haldeman on the still-living Ronald Reagan. -DXO December 11, 2003 Tapes Show Nixon Was No Reagan Fan By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec. 10 — President Richard M. Nixon was unimpressed by Ronald Reagan, a fellow California Republican, whom he called "strange" and…
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GoogObits: Syria Lesson (Daniel Nehme, prominent politician and Communist, dies at 78)
Sometimes an obituary will startle me slightly, shake me out of silly conceptions and lazy thinking. Before I read Daniel Nehme’s obituary, the nature of the Syrian political and educational systems– the number of political parties, the existence of law degrees, the apparent ability to be known as a Communist, never occurred to me. Now,…
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OopsaDaisy
The New York Times had to issue a rare correction today– Katharine Sergava is not dead.
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GoogObits on Salon Blogs Decommissioned
Today I moved the platform for this hypertext enjambment project to its own website at www.googobits.com.
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THE TALK OF IRAQ: A Conversation on Tiptoes, Wary of Mines
November 30, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS AMIRIYA, Iraq — Knowing what ordinary Iraqis thought was never easy for Western reporters when Saddam Hussein bestrode the land. Now his secret police and information ministry minders are gone, but not Mr. Hussein himself. So his terror still radiates among Iraqis, many of whom condition their words…