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the Frontline, Again.  Frontline, the outstanding (my opinion as
well as that of many others) documentary series marked the
beginning of its 25th season this week with another look into
the often-closed world in which Vice-President Dick Cheney
operates. The hour-long debut on Tuesday evening, Oct. 16, was
titled "Cheney's Law." It was produced by Michael Kirk, who
could reasonably be labeled Minister of the Interior for his
efforts, over the past six years, in turning out ten Frontline
programs that, in one way or another, probed those activities of
the Bush administration—whether one agrees with them or not—that
have largely developed and been carried on out of public view.
The program was widely reviewed in the newspapers. Here are
links to some of them in the New York Times, the Denver Post,
USA Today and the Boston Globe.  The reviews that I read were
all rather positive. That is not the case with several of the
letters that arrived in my in