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Boy! Talk about stirring up a hornet’s nest. All the International Olympic Committee chairman, Jacques Rogge, had to do was suggest that the sportsmanship of the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt in winning the Olympic gold medal — and setting a new world’s record — in the hundred meter dash wasn’t all that it might have…

As something of a connoisseur of newspaper obituaries, I have gradually come to believe that the inclusion in them of the deceased’s cause of death is a mistake, a bit of journalistic pandering to the vulgar curiosity of the reader which detracts from the real purpose of an obit, which is to celebrate a life….

Poor old John Edwards. Now the victim of scandal and looking more than ever like the charlatan he always was to us non-believers, he has had the additional bad luck to see his political career crash and burn at the very moment where his campaign theme about the “two nations” seems to have been vindicated….

My colleague, Roger Kimball, remarks elsewhere on how the New York Times’s reporting on a new anti-Obama book by Jerome Corsi is riddled with opinion masquerading as fact. But where the Times reviewers only venture to say that “Significant parts of the book. . . have already been challenged as misleading or false” (fancy that!), a similar…

This summer, on eight successive Tuesday evenings, I presented a series called Isn’t It Romantic? Romance at the Movies, 1934-1989 at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington. (go to www.eppc.org/movies for details). The eighth and final film in the series was When Harry Met Sally . . . (1989), by Rob Reiner, shown…