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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Starting Five

DREAM TEAM

Let's say you're starting a new magazine. You've got unlimited money and the power to choose any five writers in the world. I was thinking about this today, and this is the team I built.



William Langewiesche: The testimony rings all too true, with compensation for some light twisting of facts. It is very likely that the Marines did indeed begin taking fire on Route Chestnut, a short while after the occupants of the car were killed, and possibly in angry response. Someone is bomb me, I am shoot him, but he is just shoot at me, and I am just shoot him back. This is the kind of fight that Donald Rumsfeld could not imagine.



Gary Smith: No, Al, No....



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