One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

Douglas Brinkley
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  3. Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

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  5. Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.

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