Since we do listen to our voice mail, it’s a valid way to communicate with us. This month, we had a number of calls about April’s cover subject, Tom Friedman [“A Man of His Times”]. Friedman’s old friends, colleagues, and even rivals phoned us. Tom M. said his mother and Mrs. Friedman were old card-playing chums. Stephanie J. was a St. Louis Park High classmate giving her thumbs up, and Al E. called all the way from Washington, D.C., to say the story was “being passed around here.” George B. left the following message: “I’m glad someone finally pointed out how superficial some of Friedman’s arguments really are.” Ross K. contacted us the old-fashioned way–by email–to let us know that, in the year of Friedman’s birth, “It was Malenkov who replaced Stalin. There were a number of cold war hard-liners before Kruschev came along as premier.” That’s true. Kruschev did not become premier until 1958. But he was Stalin’s immediate replacement in 1953 as General Secretary of the Soviet–the top of the Soviet communist party.
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