Archive for September 27th, 2007
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Angelina Jolie Will Make You Cry
One of the world’s most beautiful women tears up talking about one of the world’s worst political messes, and her hopes for an Iraqi refugee boy she recently met in Syria. Resist her appeal if you can:
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
The Law of Unintended Consequences
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As Afghanistan struggles to cut its raging opium production, aid workers try to find alternative crops, but for some former poppy farmers the choice was easy — they planted marijuana instead.
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
An Obama-Eye View of New York
I took this photo earlier tonight at the big Barack Obama rally in NY. His staff had a scissors lift (a.k.a. a cherry-picker) and was taking photographers — and, by the end of the evening, print reporters as well — up in it to get crowd shots. Obama communications director Robert Gibbs said 22,758 people […]
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
The Argument About The Argument
I’m contributing to the TPMCafe Book Club, which this week is discussing Matt Bai’s new book, The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics.
My take, followed by a question:
Reviewers, including the discussants on this site, have largely praised the book’s portraits and reporting, but taken issue with Bai’s broader argument that the […]
