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Willem Lange: A Lifetime of Fishing Has Landed Trophy Memories, Friendships

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

East Montpelier I know just when this annual spring passion was born — not the date, but the situation. Great-Gramma Lange had taken my sister and me on our weekly walk to Washington Park, just two blocks from our home in Albany, N.Y. What marvels there were there! — a giant bronze statue of Moses smiting the rock on Mount Horeb to get water for the Israelites; weird trees that …

Column: Criminalizing National Security Journalism

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The Obama Justice Department’s crusade against leakers just took a quantum leap — and it’s extremely worrisome. It’s one thing to go after officials who leak classified information to the press. The Obama administration has gone after more of them than all previous administrations combined. Nonetheless, officials with security clearances sign a contract pledging not to share material with the outside world — …

Column: These ‘Scandals’ Are But Pale Imitations

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

I was 12 years old during Sam Ervin’s Watergate hearings, and watched them over the course of a long, hot summer, a time when I seemed to register the startling fact that my parents weren’t infallible and grownups did not necessarily know more about the world than I did. Watergate was empowering in a sense: It told you that the authority figures were …

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