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To: JohnM who wrote (107898)	7/24/2003 8:56:15 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I wish that somebody assume FL's mantle, till he returns, and ask politely personal attackers to stay off the thread for a set number of days, every time they attack. Or spammers of both left and right for that matter.

To: JohnM who wrote (107898)	7/25/2003 8:12:46 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Great News! Brooks is excellent. Someone at the "Times" saw the light. Sullivan's comment:BROOKS TO THE NYT: A great move for the New York Times, although David will have to defend himself from becoming the tame establishment conservative. Still, it really does show someone there gets what has gone wrong. With David Shipley at the Op-Ed reins, we have a chance of a truly diverse editorial page for the first time in a very long while. The New York Times Appoints a Columnist By THE NEW YORK TIMES [D] avid Brooks, a frequent contributor to The New York Times and a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, has been named an Op-Ed page columnist for The Times. His column will appear twice a week beginning in early September. Mr. Brooks's appointment was announced by Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The Times, and Gail Collins, editor of the editorial page. Mr. Brooks, 41, has also been a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, and a regular commentator on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." Mr. Brooks's articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Forbes, The Washington Post , SmartMoney, The New Republic, Commentary and other publications. He is the author of "Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There," published in 2000 by Simon & Schuster, which next spring will publish his book about suburban life in America. After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1983, Mr. Brooks worked as a police reporter for the City News Bureau. He went on to become a writer and editor of the editorial page at The Wall Street Journal. He also edited an anthology, "Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing," which was published by Vintage Books. nytimes.com