History Was Just the Half of It
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Could Macedonians ride and carry shields at the same time? With a little help, Oliver Stone balances military history and movie pragmatism in "Alexander."
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It didn't look like much, just a single up the middle.
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Sure, it wasn't quite DiMaggio-esque in terms of its pop culture mythology, as far as "streaks" go. But Barack Obama's reign as the only perfect attendee of Senate votes among presidential hopefuls came to a crashing end last week.
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"Come to Think of It" (Viking Adult, 400 pages. $24.95) By Daniel Schorr: Everybody remembers the good old days. Time tends to filter out the rest. But after 91 years, 12 presidents and seven decades in the news business, Daniel Schorr doesn't seem to have filtered out much.
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Progress is measured in different ways. Often it is measured by bold headlines and loud pronouncements. This past week, it has been measured quietly.
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Don't take the headlines too seriously, because they're long on facts, short on truth, and they just don't matter.
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If legend is to be believed, the end of a victorious war was behind Pheidippides&#39; trek from Marathon to Athens 2,500 years ago.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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When I compare the current attack of the Olympics with the original Games in ancient Greece, a theme emerges. Back then, athletes were occasionally disemboweled and those who stepped over the line were flogged.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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By the time things mercifully came to a conclusion last night -- or was it early morning? -- the dominant story for the first two-thirds of Game 1 of the ALCS, a 10-7 Yankees victory, had been reduced to a footnote.
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PHILADELPHIA _ It was supposed to be just two games. It was supposed to be two victories on the books: one against a virtual junior varsity squad in Houston and another vs. New York, which had spent most of the afternoon looking just as bad.
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Headlines can tell you both more -- and less -- than they intend.
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The issues raised by âThe Rape of Europa,â a documentary about the Nazi pillaging of art and the Allied effort to return it, canât be conveniently consigned to the dustbin of history.
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An ancient battle. A little-known director. An R rating. No major movie stars.
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President Arafat is History. And I do not mean that he belongs to the past because he has died. Quite the contrary: his tireless efforts over so many years, since 1949, when he founded