It's sometimes said that the '00s opened with a Pearl Harbor and ended with a Great Crash. Yet this dramatic decade still lacks even a name. The Forties had big bands and a bigger war, the Sixties protests and hippies, the Seventies "malaise." But what do we call the decade just ending?
William Safire, a onetime speechwriter for President Nixon who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times, has died at age 79, the newspaper announced Sunday.
There's an old Chinese curse -- so they say, anyway -- "May you live in interesting times." 2006 may be an interesting time, in all sorts of areas, in all sorts of different ways.
This week, Tom Brokaw leaves NBC's anchor desk. In March, it'll be Dan Rather's turn to depart at CBS.
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Any Sunday now William Safire will write about the use of "deluxe" as a verb. I suspect he'll trace it back to Dino's Family Clock Restaurant, where the menu reads, tantalizingly: "Deluxe it for th...
Hey, what kind of country is this, anyway? Paul Thayer and Billy Bob Harris are now reachable c/o the federal prison in Big Spring, Texas, while the latest available data show that in New York City...
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