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If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.

This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried ...

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The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflati...

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Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse f...

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James Reston

Journalist

Born: 1909-11-03

Died: 1995-12-06

James Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995), nicknamed "Scotty", was a prominent American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. Associated for many years with The New York Times, he became perhaps the most powerful, influential, and widely-read journalist of his era.More