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Flashbacks: an embedded reporter goes over to the “dark side,” dumb things John Silber once said about gay people, and the virtual house call

CROSSING OVER 5 years ago April 18, 2003 | Dan Kennedy discussed what he thought was “perhaps the most astounding media story to come out" of the Iraq War. “This past Sunday, Jules Crittenden, the Boston Herald reporter embedded with the Army’s Third...

Flashbacks: pre-Iraq war jitters, that damn smoking ban, and the growing clout of the local Hispanic community

RAIN ON THEIR PARADE 5 years ago February 21, 2003| Seth Gitell wondered if the imminent invasion of Iraq could turn into a quagmire of urban combat like the 1993 debacle in Mogadishu, Somalia. “There are scores of optimists (mainly in the Pentagon) who...