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Gawker today links to a clip it says is from Youtube, though the clip, at this point, cannot be located on Youtube itself.  It is no less than the trailer of Ron Howard's movie Frost/Nixon, starring Frank Langella reprising his acclaimed Broadway performance as...

In the Telegraph (London), Czech-born British TV journalist John Tusa remembers forty years ago today, 21 August 1968, when the Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia and crushed the hopes raised by the Prague Spring. Sir John has prepared a series of four...

On the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet crushing of the Prague Spring, comes news of a Russian celebration, in occupied South Ossetia, of the rape of Georgia. Valery Gergiev, who is the principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and who has conducted in...

In late July 1968, against the beautiful backdrop of Skipper’s Cottage at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk, Long Island, Richard M. Nixon worked on the acceptance speech he would soon be delivering to the Republican National Convention in Miami. Working on yellow legal pads,...

Hua Guofeng, the Second Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, is dead at the age of 87. Born in Shanxi province, he joined the Red Army when he was fifteen. He became a full Party member in 1938 and was assigned to Hunan province after the Communists took it over....

This weekend, while being interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN's Q&A, former Nixon White House speechwriter Ben Stein announced that he planned to vote for Ralph Nader; his main reason for doing so, from what I could gather, is that he disapproves of Sen. John...

Michael Barone looks at today's headlines ---an Olympics in Beijing, an invasion in Georgia, a speech in Berlin---and is reminded of 1936 and 1948 and 1963 and 1989. His excellent column  ---"Echoes of Berlin"--- draws parallels between the Russians and Tbilisi and...

In addition to raising some goosebumps, Kobe Bryant's interview with Chris Collinsworth during Friday night's Olympics coverage has also raised some hackles. Collinsworth: Where does the patriotism come from inside of you? Historically, what is it? Kobe: Well, you...

In yesterday's Jerusalem Post, Yehuda Avnner recalled some vivid observation of a testy conversation duringthe fall of 1970 between his boss, Prime Minister Golda Meir, and opposition leader Menachem Begin. After making a heated speech on the floor of the Knesset...

There's an interesting article by Adrian Higgins in today's Washington Post about the plans to restore the house and grounds of Steepletop --- Edna St. Vincent Millay's home in upstate New York.At least part of the first step toward raising the necessary millions will...