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Excerpt .. balance at link The Education of Dan Rather From the golden age of network TV to the end of its hegemony. Thursday, December 2, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST Life is complicated, people are complicated, and most of us are a jumble of virtues, flaws and contradictions. I like to try to understand the past, try to put it together in a way that makes sense to me. This can involve judging not only your own actions and decisions but those of others, which can be hard. I have a friend who once said in the middle of a...

O'Reilly's tragic flaw -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 13, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Geoff Metcalf -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Bill O'Reilly's hissy fit on the air with Don Imus has done more damage to the O'Reilly package than 50 Matt Drudges. The last time I wrote about an O'Reilly-Drudge dustup, Bill told me, "I don't need radio." And that is true, but as I wrote previously, he obviously wants it. O'Reilly had done a magnificent job positioning himself and his Fox "O'Reilly Factor" as a bastion of "no spin." He had crystallized himself as the guy who would ask the hard...