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December 07, 2006

MAX BOOT ON U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS:

Our guest tonight who is a leading American security studies scholar was, in fact, born in the old Soviet Union. In the latest installment of his weekly column for the Los Angeles Times, he addresses the strained relationship between us and "them."

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FOR TODAY'S EDITION OF THE FILE...

...we have been reading the wide range of commentary on the Baker-Hamilton Study Group report. Here are some of the "considered reactions" that we think worthy of your consideration.

"The Iraq Muddle Group" from the Wall Street Journal

"The Iraq Study Group" by Robert Kaplan in The Atlantic

"Frankly Incensed: Unwise Men Bear Gifts for Butchers" by Ralph Peters in the New York Post

"Captain Obvious to the Rescue" by Robert Tracinski at Real Clear Politics

"This Way Out" by Cal Thomas at Real Clear Politics

"'Pie in the sky' report won't fix Iraq" by Peter W. Galbraith in the Boston Globe

"Asking for chaos" by Frederick W. Kagan in the New York Daily News

"A Commission’s Folly" by Sean Daniels at Front Page Mag

"Sobriety Check" from the New Republic

"A Report Overtaken by Reality" by George Will in the Washington Post

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BEETHOVEN AND RACHMANINOV FROM SOUTH AFRICA:

Jonathan Oshry sounds, to us, to be a fully accomplished pianist in the romantic mode and these recordings with the Johannesburg Philharmonic seem to us quite noteworthy for being both lyrical and assertive.

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