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Article: Country's Divisions, Once So Clear, Are Blurred by Attack.(Survey on patriotism)(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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THERE are, as we know, only two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't. This is especially true among the chin-pullers and pulse-takers of Washington's chattering class, who for the past year have been dominated by (to reverse the president's favorite phrase) dividers not uniters.
You saw it right there on the front page of The New York Times last December: America was "split down the middle, divided into two hostile groups." And who would dare argue with The New York Times? Certainly not U.S. News and World Report, which scanned the landscape and saw "a nation divided in almost every conceivable ...