As for Eszterhas's book, it's really a combination of a treatment and a numbingly long op-ed piece.
Daniel Bergner ("When Forever Is Far Too Long," Op-Ed, June 17) suggests that sentences of life without parole do not consider the "spectacular changes we as human beings can sometimes accomplish".
In mid-April of this year, Sick--an adjunct professor of Middle Eastern politics at Columbia University, who had had responsibility for Iran as a member of the National Security staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and briefly, Reaganpublished a long op-ed article in the "Times" laying out a carefully argued case that such a deal was actually made.
Patrick Michaels, the climatologist and polemicist for the rightwing Cato Institute, published a long op-ed piece in the DC Examiner, slamming Mann for an email quote about keeping sceptics' papers out of the IPCC report "even if we have to redefine what the peer-reviewed literature is".
It was Madison and Hamilton, along with John Jay, who got the assignment of defending every last detail of the various Philadelphia compromises in the series of long op-ed pieces later collected as "The Federalist" and treasured to this day by columnists and speechwriters composing encomiums to the providential perfection of the framers' handiwork.
One prominent outsider, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, wrote a long op-ed article that appeared in today's Washington Post in which he described German-American relations as seriously troubled and said that the administration should try to improve the atmosphere.
A long op-ed by Enrique Krauze in the Times today says no, but some of his comments — "Our national institutions function" — fall in the category of things that are alarming for needing to be said, while others just give one pause: Of course, freedom of press is essential for democracy.
Patrick Michaels, the climatologist and heavyweight polemicist for the rightwing Cato Institute published a long op-ed piece in the DC Examiner, slamming Mann for an email quote about keeping sceptics' papers out of the IPCC report "even if we have to redefine what the peer-reviewed literature is".
Reviewer 2 was concerned specifically about the occupancy of CBF1 and CBF3 after the long OP-labeling incubation reaction.
Stephen E. Ambrose is correct in "An Honor Too Long Delayed" (Op-Ed, May 19).
