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September 1, 1995April 21, 2022Cultural Revolutions

Letter to the Senator

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Dear Senator Jesse Helms, I can only ask if maybe the press again missed your wry wit when they reported that you had called the rescue of Air Force Captain Scott F. O’Grady “something out of a storybook.” I agree. It had everything but Lassie greeting the chopper. Marines landed 50 meters from him. (What...

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May 1, 1995April 21, 2022Vital Signs

Faux Amis in the Balkans

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Roy Gutman’s Witness to Genocide raises the specter of Janet Cooke. Although the author of Witness to Genocide, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning “dispatches” on the “ethnic cleansing” of Bosnia, speaks American English, from the many awkward phrases in “his” book one might infer that someone other than Mr. Gutman wrote at least parts of it....