It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
Sydney SchanbergMy own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.
Sydney SchanbergWe Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.
Sydney SchanbergThe mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
Sydney Schanberg