Maureen Dowd on Kim Jong-Il
That guy should go hang himself from a bonsai tree
in the New York Times. Billy Wilder coined it, as she tells it.
I was as moved as any American watching the reuinification of the journalists with their families, who could not be. Watching it I was reminded of something… which I just managed to find:
America speaks to the whole of humanity because the whole of humanity is represented here
BBC journalist Justin Webb in a fine essay on leaving America.
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Sounds like Maureen’s talking about Sarko! ;-)
Will miss Justin’s reports. He was always half crossed-over, but that’s what made him good, depsite the tendency to brush the dust under the carpet.