Bruce Springsteen will be on 60 Minutes tonight, discussing his new CD: “Magic,” and responding to “critics who call his anti-war sentiments unpatriotic,” Springsteen says, “the real sin against patriotism is saying nothing while your country is being harmed.” When reminded that his anti-war views, prominent on his new album, “Magic,” will cause people to say he is unpatriotic — as his critic have charged before — Springsteen says “That’s just the language of the day…the modus operandi for...

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  “Now is the winter of our discontent.” -From King Richard III (I, i, 1) Last week, big chunks of America were caught up in two enormous soap operas. The first was Ken Burns’ documentary, “The War,” that was pulling in network-type ratings. It reminded us of World War II, which I, as a child of the ‘fifties, grew up with omnipresent and memory fading, to the point that they could put “The War” on TeeVee as a weekly...

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