Russian Invasion of Ukraine Fits the Pattern
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The 5:20 a.m. radio announcement was just one-half minute long. But the chilling content of that broadcast has echoed through history and has never been more pertinent. These are the grim words that went out over the air: “This is Imre Nagy speaking, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People’s Republic. Today at daybreak, […]
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Hewitt and Arledge Changed How TV Tells a Story
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In the 1960’s, two shrewd network television producers, Don Hewitt of CBS News and Roone Arledge of ABC Sports, came to the same conclusion. It was time to shift programming into a higher gear, one that added context. Hewitt realized that a dry presentation of the news was not what the public wanted; Arledge came […]
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50 Years Later: The Legendary Funeral of J. Edgar Hoover
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It was more like a presidential inauguration than a funeral. Among the more than two thousand invitation-only attendees were President and Mrs. Richard Nixon, Vice President Spiro Agnew, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren Burger, future President Gerald Ford, Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, Acting Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, former Attorney General John Mitchell, […]
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Easing the Pain of Losing Your Father
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Neil Chethik was twenty-seven years old when he first heard his father cry. “In 1984,” Chethik recalled, “my paternal grandfather died suddenly. I was living a few blocks from him at the time. My father came to town the next day, and we spent an afternoon going through my grandfather’s apartment. My father began […]
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Did a Case of the Yips Cost Mikaela Shiffrin Olympic Gold?
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“I can’t explain to you how frustrated I am,” Mikaela Shiffrin told reporters in Beijing during the recent Olympic Games. “I have to fix something but I don’t know what I am supposed to fix.” The 26-year old native of Vail, Colorado, widely believed to be the greatest alpine skier in history, had just […]
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