Karen: OK, I'm working on it. The William Bennett stuff is still my favorite but it's too old to include in this kind of pitch, I think. And I DO like the P.J. O'rourke piece but he's not a Pulitzer Prize winning NYT columnist like Friedman, so am going back to his. You're right, though, this IS difficult to condense into 500 words! me: 500 words isn't necessarily a hard limit me: 1000 is reasonable me: even longer, perhaps Karen: OK, am working on putting an intro paragraph onto one of your funniest Friedman pieces. Will get back to you in about 30 minutes. Love you -- this is fun! me: great, thanks Karen: Did you have a Friedman piece on T/S? Can't find it. me: Yeah, one about China Karen: Can you send me link?