Article: Dan, done.(The Week)(Dan Rather)

THANKS to a lengthy "farewell" profile of Dan Rather in The New Yorker, we've now learned that Rather keeps an ancient Royal typewriter smack-dab in the middle of his desk because, "It reminds me of what I aspire to be--I want to be a great reporter." One wonders whether the irony of this has dawned on Rather. After all, it was another typewriter--or the lack of one--that essentially brought his career as a great reporter to an end.

Now, bear with me through what will seem like an unrelated story. At the outset of World War II, Britain was still scrounging for any weapons it could get its hands on, and so de-mothballed a piece of light field artillery from the ...

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