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The Big Birthday Bust
So I was in downtown DC the other day, emerging from the Gallery Place Metro station. There were half a dozen National Guardsmen standing around looking at their phones and…
Read MoreHail to the Passing Generation: R.I.P.
Recently, the comments on my Washington Post partums list-serv, which grew exponentially in February with the abrupt firing of up to 300 from the newsroom, have had two main themes:…
Read More“All the President’s Men” 50 years on
The New York Times recalls the film and era, and so do I. It’s ironic that a retrospective on the 50th anniversary of the Academy Award-winning film b”All the President’s…
Read MoreDecluttering Andre Previn
My mother Emma Lampert Meyer died in May 1998, just shy of 90. Part of her legacy was her, shall we say, archives. Which wound up at our house —…
Read MorePlay ball! Washington Post Update.
During the depths of the pandemic, there was one bright spot come spring. Baseball was back! Fans couldn’t actually attend games, but they could watch them on cable. The ballpark…
Read MoreKeeping Posted
Bezos wants clickbait! More departures. Forget the seven principles enunciated by my namesake Eugene Meyer The Washington Post’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos made it clear to a select group of Post people he…
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