Achenblog http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss=rss_linkset Joel Achenbach on whatever strikes his fancy. 15 en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright 2012 Washington Post Company Achenblog 140 20 http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss=rss_linkset http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif Wed, 16 May 2012 10:15:06 EST 147 <![CDATA[Joel Achenbach: Electoral map 2012: Beware reductionism]]> Reductionism has its charms. You can eliminate a lot of clutter and complexity by believing that the future will hinge entirely upon one dis­cern­ible and measurable factor, element or thingamajig. It’s like knowing a code word, or a secret handshake.

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I need to tidy up a loose end on the Woodward-Bradlee-Himmelman story, putting on the record a written response by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to one element of Jeff Himmelman’s book as excerpted in New York magazine. Woodward provided me with the typed response last night. This isn’t about Ben Bradlee but rather deals with something Himmelman discusses at length in the first half of the New York mag excerpt. Himmelman found a memo that shows that one of the sources for Woodward and Bernstein back in 1972 was a member of the Watergate grand jury.

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