[lbo-talk] Kubin: How to Write a Friedman Column

[Carl Remick]

>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>
>http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=9065
>
>The New York Observer
>May 19, 2004|8:05 PM
>
>Write your own Thomas Friedman column!
>
>1. Choose your title to intrigue the reader through its internal conflict:
>
>a. War and Peas
>b. Osama, Boulevardier
>c. Big Problems, Little Women ...
>
>9. Conclude your column with a suggestion referring back to the opening
>contradiction, but with an ironic twist. Make sure the suggestion you
>proffer sounds plausible, but in fact has no chance of happening:
>
>a. Driving into Bethlehem in the back of a pickup, I wonder: What if Yasir
>Arafat and Ariel Sharon sit down and play a game of poker? And what if the
>stakes are these: If Sharon wins, the Intifada is over. If Arafat wins,
>Palestine gains statehood. One game of no-limit Texas hold 'em, and the
>Middle East crisis is resolved. Just like that. Yasir and Ariel, deal 'em
>out.
>
>-- Michael Kubin

Good so far as it goes, but this leaves out step #10:  Collect Pulitzer 
Prize.  Friedman's got 2 or 3 of 'em.

Carl

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