To the editors: In “How Do I Hate NPR?” (June 25) I reported that NPR reporter John Greenberg failed to interview Stephen Morris, the Harvard researcher who discovered a document that purports to show that the North Vietnamese held back several hundred American POWs when the two countries signed a peace treaty in 1973. I […]
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How Do I Hate NPR? Let Me Count the Ways
Every few years I make an anthropological visit to my sister’s home out west. My sister—her name is withheld to protect the guilty—is a lifelong bureaucrat who’s never worked for anyone who had to show a profit, and she is deeply suspicious of the whole concept. She’ll drive miles across the city to poke through […]
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Postcards From a Lost War
There were addled armchair mercenaries and intrepid millionaires with fruitcake dreams of empire. There were sex-crazed commandantes and the sultry spies who sent them to their deaths. There was a befuddled old Indiana farmer who found himself managing a