There’s an extraordinary story in yesterday’s London Evening Standard about a man whose hearing was saved by his iPod. Tadeusz Gryglewicz was on the Number 30 bus when the bomb exploded. He was taken to University College Hospital where doctors told him later that listening to his iPod saved him from having perforated ear-drums. He was listening to Rachmanivov’s Concerto No. 2!
Daily Archives: July 15, 2005
Worse than Watergate
Frank Rich, in a wonderful NYT Op-Ed piece on the scandal enveloping Karl Rove and the Bush White House.
WHEN John Dean published his book “Worse Than Watergate” in the spring of 2004, it seemed rank hyperbole: an election-year screed and yet another attempt by a Nixon alumnus to downgrade Watergate crimes by unearthing worse “gates” thereafter. But it’s hard to be dismissive now that my colleague Judy Miller has been taken away in shackles for refusing to name the source for a story she never wrote. No reporter went to jail during Watergate. No news organization buckled like Time. No one instigated a war on phony premises. This is worse than Watergate.