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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20020822
Author:George F. Will

"Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly.

Shut up he explained."

-- Ring Lardner, "The Young Immigrunts"

The country was already feeling knocked sideways. Then came this summer of discontent.

Even before summer there had been a 16 percent decline in average household wealth in just two years. Now there have been unsettling events concerning iconic institutions, from the Catholic Church to Wall Street, from major airlines to Major League Baseball. And the New York Times, which hitherto has fancied itself, and been widely trusted as, America's "newspaper of record."

The incredibly shrinking Times, ...

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