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| State Department being too prickly | | Having spent almost 25 years at the State Department, I'm pretty familiar with the need and importance of defending U.S. foreign policy. And I've spent my fair share of time standing up publicly supporting a range of policies, most of which I fully backed and even I few I didn't. After all, Foggy Bottom isn't the academy; unless it's something illegal, immoral or unethical, playing the good soldier is part of your job description. If you want the luxury of expressing your own opinion, join the chattering classes. |
| When Bronx Zoo exhibited man in a cage | | During September of 1906, nearly a quarter of a million New Yorkers flocked to the Bronx Zoo to behold a young African named Ota Benga -- a so-called "pygmy" -- exhibited in an iron monkey house cage. |
| Let's be honest about Caitlyn Jenner | | So Bruce Jenner officially said farewell to his former male identity by introducing the world to Caitlyn Jenner Monday in, quite literally, the way only a major Hollywood figure could: via a Vanity Fair cover previewed in a tweet. As a social media connection of mine mused earlier in the week: "Sadly, this is probably the only way that (VF editor) Graydon Carter would ever agree to put a woman in her sixties on the cover of Vanity Fair." |
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