A Solved Problem Creates Two

Americans Treat History Like A Cookbook. Whenever They Are Uncertain What To Do Next, They Turn To History And Look Up The Proper Recipe, Invariably Designated "the Lesson Of History.

There Is No Business Like Show Business, Irving Berlin Once Proclaimed, And Thirty Years Ago He May Have Been Right, But Not Anymore. Nowadays Almost Every Business Is Like Show Business, Including Politics, Which Has Become More Like Show Business Than Show Business Is.

It Is Safest To Shut Up And Pay, Which Is What I Shall Eventually Do, Though I Shall Hate Having To Sell The Children.

Journalism Was Being Whittled Away By A Wall Street Theory That Profits Can Be Maximized By Minimizing The Product.

It Is Fitting That Yesteryear's Swashbuckling Newspaper Reporter Has Turned Into Today's Solemn Young Sobersides Nursing A Glass Of Watered White Wine After A Day Of Toiling Over Computer Databases In A Smoke-free, Noise-free Newsroom.