Tag: Brush with Greatness
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Brush With Greatness: Fouad Ajami, 1945-2014
Professor Ajami never wavered in his belief that America made the right choice by overthrowing Saddam Hussein. I wholeheartedly share that viewpoint.
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Brush With Greatness: Episcopalian Edition
I teamed up with the Web Goddess on Sunday to produce a web report published today on a visit to a Jersey City parish by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. The occasion was a centennial celebration by Church of the Incarnation, launched in an era when black Jersey City residents had to travel […]
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Brush With “Greatness”: Following in Helen Thomas’s Footsteps
I have the (pick an adjective) distinction of being only the second journalist to interview Jimmy Carter after he left office in early 1981. The first, Carter told me, was Helen Thomas, the long-time White House correspondent who resigned under pressure today after making astonishingly offensive comments to the effect that “the Jews” should get […]
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Brush With Greatness: Elena Elenadana Kagan
I’d like to be able to say that I knew she was destined for great things, but I had no such insight. I will say that years ago, when I read she had been named Dean of Harvard Law School, that I was impressed but not particularly surprised.