Copyright 2011 The New York Sun Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:52:29 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Warren Kozak :: Stories from The New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/authors/Warren+Kozak admin@nysun.net (Seth Lipsky) webmaster@nysun.com en-us WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/sports/ghosts-of-the-superbowl/87210/ Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:23:36 EST For the 182nd time, the Green Bay Packers will play the Chicago Bears on Sunday – this time for the championship of the National Football Conference. No two teams have played each other longer and more often. Although the record is pretty even (Bears 92, Packers 83, and 6 ties), it’s not just Packer and Bear fans that will be heading to Soldier Field in downtown Chicago this weekend. There will be a lot of ghosts there as well. There have been other championship games. One of the great ones... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/wrinkle-in-time/55351/ Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 EST He has no idea what's coming, but we do. We see John F. Kennedy looking so handsome, so happy, and at the center of the world. His pretty wife seated next to him only adds to the glamour and the anguish. The sun is shining. He appears radiant and looking forward to the future. And we all know that the clock is ticking down. There are less than thirty minutes left. It's one of the saddest photos of the last century and we see it again and again. When we view this image today, on what would have... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/clints-new-hat/49165/ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 EST Clint Eastwood's, "Letters From Iwo Jima," is a brilliantly made film that is up for Best Picture at the Academy Awards this Sunday. It has already won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. Nonetheless, it is a terribly misleading film. Most people today do not realize that there were really two Holocausts of World War II. There was the one perpetrated by the Germans against the Jews. The lesser known one was committed by the Japanese against the Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, and Vietnamese. In... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/going-down-the-tube/42224/ Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST A television executive is walking on the beach when the devil appears with an offer. "I will give you the number one show that will blow out the competition for five, no make that ten seasons in a row," the devil tells him, "but in payment I want your soul, your children's souls and the souls of your children's children." The television fellow sizes up the devil with a curious look and asks, "What's the catch?" It's an old joke, but it may need updating. Last week, NBC announced that it would... Warren Kozak http://www.nysun.com/opinion/wisconsin-what-a-race/41633/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST For absolute intrigue, fascination, and sheer fun, the best race of this mid-term election just might be the contest for Wisconsin's secretary of state, an office most people in that state are not even sure exists. Forget Messrs. Foley and Hastert. Forget Messrs. Cuomo and Pirro. Forget Messrs. Lamont and Lieberman. The Wisconsin race pits a neophyte Republican against an incumbent Democrat with the most famous political name in the state.The Democrat, Doug LaFollette, has held that office... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/conspiratorial-mind/40615/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EST A number of years ago, when I was dating the woman who became my wife, we were invited to dinner at the home of close friends. There was another couple there that night that had just moved to New York from Washington, where they both worked in the Clinton White House — he for Bill, she for Hillary. Throughout the evening, they regaled us with fascinating stories about the first couple that were both fairly personal and completely unsolicited. Just before dessert, I turned to my future wife and... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/wests-canary/38211/ Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EST Years ago, before modern devices could register poisonous gas levels in mines, miners would take canaries into the shafts with them. The birds, which are more susceptible to toxins, served a very useful purpose. If the canary fell over, it was time for the miners to get out quickly. It was a sad miner who failed to pay attention to the canary in the cage. Throughout time, whenever tyrants arose and preached a mixture of world domination and complete intolerance for most other human beings... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/transforming-the-jewish-psyche/36370/ Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EST My guess is, you've been here. A number of years ago, I was at a small dinner party on Central Park West when another invitee, who taught up at Columbia, started (out of the blue) to berate Israel for all the horrible things it had done to the Palestinian people with its "occupation." When I offered a somewhat different view, the professor responded saying it was really difficult for him to sit there and listen to this "sixth grade logic." I wasn't exactly sure, but I sensed he was disparaging... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/something-quite-sad/30805/ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:00:00 EST There is ultimately something quite sad and fairly predictable about Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a Georgia Democrat. I'm not talking about her penchant for altercations with security guards or her in-your-face confrontational style or even the strange and outrageous conspiracy theories she espouses. There is nothing new about any of these particular qualities in politics or elsewhere. The in-your-face personality is omnipresent these days, from Capitol Hill to professional sports to the... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/one-common-link/29356/ Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 EST He came up for parole again. Just like clockwork. Every five years. For the 13th time since he was convicted of the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan went before the California Board of Parole again this week. Sirhan was sentenced to death in 1969 but his sentence was commuted to life in prison when the California Supreme Court invalidated all death penalties prior to 1972. Sirhan turns 62 on Sunday. He has spent the last 38 years behind bars and now resides in... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/erase-all-past-deeds/27412/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 EST Just when you think the world can't get any stranger, something comes along that just stops you in your tracks and makes you wonder. These show stoppers usually emanate from cultural centers that are physically gorgeous and fun to visit but are breathtaking in their dislocation from reality. This week's entry comes from, once again, the City by the Bay. It turns out that if you live in San Francisco and you have committed a crime, you no longer have to live with that stigma on your record... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/you-cant-have-it-both-ways/25328/ Wed, 4 Jan 2006 00:00:00 EST Imagine this. ... It's August 11, 2001, and a report surfaces that Attorney General John Ashcroft has just ordered the FBI to arrest four Arab nationals living here in America. They have committed no crime, unless you consider going to strip clubs a crime. Standing at the podium at the Justice Department, Mr. Ashcroft presents a story that sounds, even to hard-core supporters, pretty fantastic. These Arabs, he tells us, are at flight schools here in the United States, using our liberal... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/true-believer/14930/ Mon, 6 Jun 2005 00:00:00 EST Israel Epstein died this month in Beijing. His death, at the age of 90, was announced by the official New China News Agency. If that sounds like an unusual name for a Chinese communist, that's because Epstein's background was a bit different from most of his neighbors. His political beliefs were as well. As many Chinese - especially younger ones - moved away from the hard-line views of Chairman Mao, Israel Epstein stayed true - in spite of the disasters visited upon China by the communist... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/april-2005-april-1945/12689/ Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:00:00 EST What would my grandmother make of America today? It's a question I've asked myself at various times in the three decades since her death ... when I see people covered with tattoos and metal in their faces, once when I encountered a guy with a large swastika on his T-shirt, and recently it's come up again in light of current events. I wonder how she would react to America's response to the war against Islamic fascists, the invasion of Iraq, and the daily diet of news we read and see on our... Warren Kozak http://www.nysun.com/opinion/footnote-in-decorum-on-the-legacy-of-george/10860/ Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST The recent death of George Kennan, at 101, reminded me of a small footnote in his long and brilliant career as a diplomat and foreign policy strategist. Mr. Kennan was a legend in U.S. foreign policy who served in several embassies, most notably in Moscow during and after World War II and was famous as the author of the "long telegram" in which he advised a more aggressive containment policy of the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War. That memo had a huge influence on our policy over the... Warren Kozak http://www.nysun.com/opinion/after-ward-churchill/10365/ Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST Ward Churchill, the Colorado professor at the center of the national controversy, is someone I've never met. I've never seen him in person. But I recognize him ... the speech patterns, the theories, the bravado. Ward Churchill embodies much of what I ran into during my undergraduate waltz through college at the tail end of the 1960s. As I intermittently horsed around and slept through my years in Madison, Wis., I encountered two very different types of professors. There were the old curmudgeons... WARREN KOZAK http://www.nysun.com/opinion/10-year-olds-tribute-to-carson/8420/ Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST Back in 1962, my family drove east in our station wagon for a wedding in New York City. I was 10 years old, and looking back at that trip, I realize how much the world has changed since then. To begin with, most people (especially entire families) didn't fly. If they traveled at all, they drove. John Kennedy was in the White House just a year (with the Cuban missile crisis, the great civil rights struggles, and Vietnam still to come). There was obviously no Internet. There wasn't even cable... Warren Kozak http://www.nysun.com/opinion/greatest-living-president/7436/ Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:00:00 EST It turns out you can learn something from television. A few months ago, I stayed up later then normal watching a repeat of the "West Wing." What made this particular episode unusual was that it included interviews with real life inhabitants of the White House. And among the familiar faces of staff members past, there were also former presidents, including Jimmy Carter talking about his truncated tenure at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Along with his reflections on life inside the real executive...