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                                             December 3, 2006





   "The frustrations of journalism are never apparent
   to those who view the craft through romantic
   eyes. In Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent" -- a
   film which persuaded me in my schooldays that I
   would like to be a reporter -- Joel McCrea played
   a journalist who outwitted Nazi agents, won the
   most beautiful girl in the movie, filed scoop
   after scoop to his New York head office and
   survived in the Atlantic when his airliner was
   shot down by a German pocket battleship."

     -- Robert Fisk, "Pity the Nation, p. 203

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   "Krugman was born and raised on Long Island, where
   he enjoyed what he describes as an 'utterly
   conventional' suburban childhood. After reading
   Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation novels, he
   nurtured a secret desire to be one of Asimov's
   'psychohistorians'--futuristic social scientists who
   could predict the course of human history."

     -- "Comparative Advantage" By Nicholas Confessore, December 2002

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