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Syndicated columnist, television commentator, and conservative intellectual, George Frederick Will (born 1941) was influential in shaping the arguments that drove American conservatism.

Arguably the most distinguished of conservative newspaper columnists, George F. Will, with weekly television appearances and syndication by the Washington Post, had particular impact on American public discourse after the election of President Ronald Reagan in 1980. Born into an academic family in 1941, Will attributed his attitude, if not his politics, to the influences of his parents, Frederick L. Will, then a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois, and Louise Will, a high school teacher and editor of a children's encyclopedia. He attended Trinity College in Connecticut, Oxford University in England, and received a Ph. D. from Princeton University in political science in 1967.

Will taught at Michigan State and the University of Toronto, but in 1970 left the academic world to serve on the staff of Republican Senator Gordon Allott of Colorado. After Allott failed to win reelection in 1972, Will became the Washington editor of National Review. He resigned as editor in 1975, but by this time he was already syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group, and by 1976 he became a contributing editor for Newsweek. Beginning in 1977 Will was a television commentator for Agronsky and Company and in 1981 for This Week with David Brinkley. At a time when conservative ideas were being seized by both the religious right and a new form of America First, Will provided a counterpoise, suggesting that conservatism could support defense, encourage law and order, and also provide for the unfortunate. He even had little difficulty suggesting the virtues of a graduated income tax.

In 1960 Will served as co-chair of Trinity Students for Kennedy. By the time he completed his dissertation in 1967, he was firmly in the conservative camp. The route by which he arrived at conservatism, however, may help explain why he has a vision that transcends the average writers of the right. At Oxford Will became dismayed with a pervasive anticapitalism. He reacted against intellectual pretension and trendiness. In rejecting the debilitating spirit of British academic conventions, Will moved toward the influence of Friedrich von Hayek and his vision of the power of the free market. By the time Will accepted his first teaching position, his view of the free market had softened and he was working his way toward a conservatism that acknowledged the possibility of government as a positive force.

In their work Column Right: Conservative Journalists in the Service of Nationalism (1988), David Burner and Thomas R. West identify the development of civic virtue as Will's central concern. As part of such development he sought justice. In his book Restoration: Congress, Term Limits, and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy (1992), Will wrote, "There is a kind of scorched-earth, pillage-and-burn conservatism that is always at a rolling boil, and which boils down to a brute animus against government … that is not my kind of conservatism … Patriotism properly understood simply is not compatible with contempt for the institutions that put American democracy on display."

Will rejected a conservatism based on self-interest rather than on conservation. One of his works, Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions (1982), argued against self-indulgence and for a measured stability to public and private life. In short, Will argued for conserving traditional American values rather than having a free-market trample all values, traditional or not. For example, he argued, following along with Leo Strauss, that government should be a force to ensure justice, because market forces alone cannot be concerned with such a concept. Certainly, Will was not an advocate of withdrawal from the world but was more interested in promoting some vision of America on an international basis. And even though he shared much of the sense of defense and preparedness with other conservatives, his sense of such matters always moved back to America, civic virtue, and moral responsibility.

To the end of establishing American values and securing America in what he perceived as a hostile world, Will wholeheartedly endorsed Reagan's presidency. At the beginning of the 1980 election year Will supported Howard Baker. As Reagan received the Republican nomination, however, Will turned to Reagan as a possibility for the promotion of civic virtue. In the process, Will, through his friendship with the Reagans, became journalist as advocate rather than journalist as adversary. This vision of civic virtue, presumably, caused him to turn away from the George Bush-Dan Quayle campaign of 1992, essentially arguing that virtue was gone from the Republican campaign and that Republicans and conservatives would be better to begin anew.

In 1977 Will received a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. After that date his productive output was, if anything, even more impressive. In addition to the Pursuit of Virtue book, four other collections of Will's columns have been published: in 1978, The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts; in 1986, The Morning After: American Successes and Excesses; in 1990, Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and At Home; and in 1994, The Leveling Wind. A sixth collection of Will's essays, The Woven Figure, was scheduled for publication in 1997.

Besides the Restoration book Will published two books of political theory: Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does (1983), originally the Godkin Lecture at Harvard University; and The New Season: A Spectator's Guide to the 1988 Election, published in 1987. Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball, based on in-depth interviews with players and managers, was published in April 1990 and became a bestseller.

Will received more than a dozen academic degrees and awards. He married Madeleine Marion in 1967. They had three children, two sons and a daughter. He remarried in 1991 and had a son by that marriage. In 1995 Will was appointed a visiting professor of government at Harvard University. Will's driving passion, almost beyond politics and political philosophy, was National League baseball and the Chicago Cubs. He even sought, in writing, to make the Cubs the metaphor for his view of mankind and vision of civic virtue.

Further Reading

There is no single biographical source on George F. Will. Other than those listed in this article, many works on current political philosophy, on contemporary newsmakers, or on modern commentators will deal with Will, and his individual body of work is massive. David Astor, "Should George Will be a Harvard prof?" Editor & Publisher (May 2, 1995).

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Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will turns 65 today. Will was an editor for the National Review when he was tapped to write a twice-weekly column for the Washington Post. He soon became a contributing editor for Newsweek, as well as a news analyst for ABC. An avid baseball fan, Will was once quoted as saying, "Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal." Among his books are two about his favorite sport: Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball (1990) and Bunts (1998).
 
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Will, George (George Frederick Will), 1941–, American political columnist, b. Champaign, Illinois. He attended Trinity College (B.A., 1962), Oxford (1962–64), and Princeton Univ. (PhD., 1964). In 1973, while he was an editor of the conservative National Review magazine, Will's editorial columns began appearing in the Washington Post. He contributes a biweekly column to Newsweek magazine and has appeared regularly on television, notably as a panel member of ABC's “This Week” since 1981. In 1977 he won a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. Will was an informal campaign adviser to Ronald Reagan in 1980. His articles have been collected in such books as The Pursuit of Virtue (1982), Suddenly (1990), Restoration (1992), and The Woven Figure (1997). Will has also written of America's national pastime in Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball (1990) and Bunts (1998).
 
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"Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction."

"Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?"

"I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life."

"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."

"Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings."

"The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples."

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George Frederick Will

George Will attending a Nationals-Cardinals baseball game, Labor Day 2006.
Born May 4, 1941 (1941-05-04) (age 68)
Champaign, Illinois
Residence Washington, D.C.
Education Trinity College — B.A.

University of Oxford — M.A.

Princeton University— PhD (1968)
Occupation Journalist, author
Employer ABC News, Newsweek, Washington Post
Spouse(s) Mari Maseng
Parents Frederick L. Will and Louise Hendrickson Will

George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author.

Contents

Education and early career

Will was born in Champaign, Illinois, the son of Frederick L. Will and Louise Hendrickson Will.[1] His father was a respected professor of philosophy, specializing in epistemology, at the University of Illinois.

Will graduated from University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, and attended Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut (B.A.). He subsequently read PPE at Magdalen College, University of Oxford (B.A., M.A.), and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in politics from Princeton University. His 1968 Ph.D. dissertation was entitled Beyond the Reach of Majorities: Closed Questions in the Open Society.

Will then taught political philosophy at the James Madison College of Michigan State University, and at the University of Toronto. He taught at Harvard University in 1995 and again in 1998. From 1970 to 1972, he served on the staff of Senator Gordon Allott (R-CO).

Career in journalism

Will served as an editor for the conservative magazine National Review from 1972 to 1978. He joined the Washington Post Writers Group in 1979, writing a syndicated twice-weekly column, which became widely circulated among newspapers across the country. In 1976, he became a contributing editor for Newsweek, writing a biweekly backpage column. As of 2008, Will still writes both columns.

Will was widely praised by liberals for condemning the corruption of the Nixon presidency. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for "distinguished commentary on a variety of topics" in 1977. Often combining factual reporting with conservative commentary, Will's columns are known for their erudite vocabulary, allusions to political philosophers, and frequent references to baseball.[2]

Will has also written two best-selling books on the game of baseball, three books on political philosophy, and has published eleven compilations of his columns for the Washington Post and Newsweek and of various book reviews and lectures.

His column is syndicated to 368 newspapers.

Will is also a news analyst for ABC since the early 1980s and was a founding member on the panel of ABC's This Week with David Brinkley in 1981 (now titled This Week with George Stephanopolous). Will was also a regular panelist on television's Agronsky & Company from 1977 through 1984 and on NBC's Meet the Press in the middle and late 1970s.

Controversies

1980 Ronald Reagan presidential campaign

Will's detractors complain about instances when Will has blurred the line between independent journalist and political advocate. Will helped Ronald Reagan prepare for his 1980 debate against Jimmy Carter, breaking with the journalistic tradition of neutrality. Immediately after the debate, Will—not yet a member of the ABC News staff—appeared on ABC's Nightline. He was introduced by host Ted Koppel, who said "It's my understanding that you met for some time yesterday with Governor Reagan," and that Will "never made any secret of his affection" for the Republican candidate. Will did not explicitly disclose that he had assisted Reagan's debate preparation, or been present during it. He went on to praise Reagan, saying his "game plan worked well. I don't think he was very surprised".[3]

Twenty-four years later, Carter appeared on a National Public Radio program, and stated that before the 1980 debate, Will gave the Reagan campaign a top-secret briefing book stolen from Carter's office.[4] According to a 2005 news article, Carter repeated this accusation in 2005 (The Alabama Plainsman, July 28, 2005). In a 2005 syndicated column, Will called his role in Reagan's debate preparation "inappropriate" but denied any role in stealing the briefing book. As he had done to Carter privately, Will wrote in his column that he gave the book a "cursory glance", and found it a "crashing bore and next to useless—for [Carter], or for anyone else".[5] In response to Will's column, Carter wrote a letter to the Washington Post retracting his accusations. Carter apologized to Will for "any incorrect statement that I have ever made about his role in the use of my briefing book ... I have never thought Mr. Will took my book".[6]

1996 Bob Dole presidential campaign

The national media watchgroup Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) criticized Will, in connection with the 1996 election, for "commenting on the presidential race while his second wife, Mari Maseng Will, was a senior staffer for the Dole presidential campaign," including commenting on a Dole speech without disclosing that his wife had helped write it. However, Will mentioned his wife's connection to the Dole campaign almost weekly on This Week.(citation needed)

2003 Association with Conrad Black

Will was criticized for his dealings with Canadian-born British financier Conrad Black.[7] Will served on an informal board of advisors to Hollinger International, a newspaper company controlled by Black. The board met once a year and Will received an annual payment of $25,000. The board was disbanded in 2001. In March 2003, Will wrote a syndicated column which praised a speech by Black and did not disclose their previous business relationship.[8]

2008 Offshore drilling by China

In a Washington Post column on June 5, 2008, Will stated that "Drilling is underway 60 miles (97 km) off Florida. The drilling is being done by China, in cooperation with Cuba, which is drilling closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are." This statement is false. It was later quoted and subsequently withdrawn by Dick Cheney after Congressional Democrats, backed by energy experts, pointed out the error. House Leader John Boehner also cited the incorrect statement: "Right at this moment some 60 miles (97 km) or less off the coast of Key West, Fla., China has the green light to drill for oil."[9][10][11]

In a June 17, 2008 column, George Will issued a correction: "In a previous column, I stated that China, in partnership with Cuba, is drilling for oil 60 miles (97 km) from the Florida coast. While Cuba has partnered with Chinese companies to drill in the Florida Straits, no Chinese company has been involved in Cuba's oil exploration that close to the United States."

2009 Global Sea Ice Level

In a Washington Post column which doubted the effects of global warming, Will stated that: "According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979." [12] This and several other claims attracted the attention of environmentalists, such as British author and activist George Monbiot.[13] Asked to respond, the website of Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois states that: "We do not know where George Will is getting his information, but our data shows that on February 15, 1979, global sea ice area was 16.79 million sq. km and on February 15, 2009, global sea ice area was 15.45 million sq. km. Therefore, global sea ice levels are 1.34 million sq. km less in February 2009 than in February 1979." [14] Will responded in a column that he accurately reported the Center's information and the challenge was mistaken.[15] The February statistics referenced by the Artic Climate Research Center were updated from the original data used in Will's column and were previously unreleased to the public.[citation needed] This drew a second response from George Monbiot, who insisted Will had not accurately reported the Center's information.[16]

The debate continued in several forums, including a subsequent op-ed by Chris Mooney published in The Washington Post challenging Will's assertions.[17]

2009 Dislike of Blue Jeans and Video Gamers

Will wrote a column for the Washington Post on April 16 in which he critized and made fun of people who wear blue jeans. Will also stated that people who play video games should not be allowed to vote in elections. [18] Will received much criticism from a variety of news outlets for these viewpoints and the way he chose to express them. [19] [20] [21]

Criticism of the George W. Bush administration

George Will opposed the nomination of Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court, and was among the first and prominent Beltway media to do so.[citation needed]

Will expressed reservations about Bush administration Iraq policies, eventually openly criticizing what he perceived to be an unrealistically optimistic set of political scenarios.

In March 2006, in a column penned in the aftermath of the apparently sectarian bombing of the Askariya Shrine in Samarra, Baghdad, Will challenged the Bush administration—and U.S. government representatives in Iraq—to be more honest about the difficulties the United States faced in rebuilding and maintaining order within Iraq, comparing the White House's rhetoric unfavorably to that of Winston Churchill during the early years of World War II. The optimistic assessments delivered by the Bush administration were described by Will as the "rhetoric of unreality."[22]

Will criticized the Bush Iraq policy, and broader White House and congressional foreign and domestic policy making, in his keynote address for the Cato Institute's 2006 Milton Friedman Prize dinner.[23]

Criticism of the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign

Will was also a harsh and early critic of both Sarah Palin and John McCain's end game for the election of 2008. He criticized Palin's understanding of the role of the Vice President, her qualifications for that role and even titled his pre-election Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post "Call Him John the Careless".[24]

Personal

Family

Will has three children with his first wife, Madeleine. One of these children, Jon, was born in 1972 with Down syndrome, which Will has written about in his column on occasion. [25] [26] In 1991, Will married Mari Maseng, a former Reagan presidential speechwriter and former communications director for Robert Dole. They have one child, a son named David, and live in the Washington D.C. area.

Interests

Will is a Chicago Cubs fan.[27][28]

Religious views

On June 3, 2008, Will stated in an interview on The Colbert Report that he was an agnostic because he was "not decisive enough [to be an atheist]".[29]

In Popular Culture

  • In the Seinfeld Season 6 episode "The Jimmy", when asked if he was able to find another man attractive, Cosmo Kramer responds that he finds Will handsome, citing his clean looks, but does not think he is "all that bright."
  • In Dave Barry's "Tax Guide" column, Barry states that "if the IRS asks where you got this information, remember to give them my full name, George Will."
  • In a season one episode of 30 Rock ("Jack-tor"), Tracy Jordan, who was thought to be illiterate, is seen reading a newspaper in an elevator remarking, "Damn, George Will keeps getting more and more conservative."
  • Cartoonist Berke Breathed has referenced him at least twice in his Bloom County comic strip series: In one election day strip, Opus, while fretting about his campaign as vice president, mentions being criticized by Will. Also in Bloom County's Sunday-only sequel, Outland, Opus, attending the monthly meeting of "Free Thinkers of the Meddow", informs the others that "George Will sends his regrets", causing the others to moan "Awwwww!".
  • For a week in the mid 1980's, Doonesbury centered its strip on the adventures of one of Will's fictional interns, drawing attention to his erudite language and mannerisms. Will had earlier been portrayed (although not actually seen) as hosting a welcoming dinner party for the Reagans. Character Rick Redfern is assigned to report on the event because 'George won't have time.'
  • Will was portrayed by Dana Carvey as overly intellectual and sullen in a sketch about baseball on Saturday Night Live. Carvey also portrayed Will in the final (but unaired) episode of The Dana Carvey Show, where he was part of the "This Week" panel hosted by David Brinkley (played by Stephen Colbert) and vomits while riding a roller coaster.

Awards

In addition to more than 15 honorary degrees:

  • 1977—Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
  • 1978—Headliner Award for consistently outstanding feature columns
  • 1979—Finalist for National Magazine Award in essays and criticism
  • 1980—Silurian Award for editorial writing
  • 1991—Silurian Award for editorial writing
  • 1991—First Place in Interpretive Columns: Clarion Awards from Women in Communications
  • 1991—Cronkite Award, Arizona State University
  • 1992—Madison Medal Award, Princeton University
  • 1993—William Allen White Award, William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas
  • 2003—Walter B. Wriston Lecture Award, The Manhattan Institute
  • 2005—Bradley Prize, The Bradley Foundation (http://www.bradleyfdn.org/cm-prizes.asp?ID=2005BradleyPrizeWinners)
  • 2006—Champion of Liberty Award, Goldwater Institute (http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_can_we_make_iraq.html)

Works

  • The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts. Harper & Row, 1978.
  • The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions. Simon & Schuster, 1982.
  • Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does. Simon & Schuster, 1983.
  • The Morning After: American Success and Excesses, 1981–1986. Free Press, 1986.
  • The New Season: A Spectator's Guide to the 1988 Election. Simon & Schuster, 1987.
  • Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball. Macmillan, 1990.
  • Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home. Free Press, 1990.
  • Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy. 1992.
  • The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture and Other News, 1990-1994. Viking, 1994.
  • The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric: 1994–1997. Scribner, 1997.
  • Bunts: Pete Rose, Curt Flood, Camden Yards and Other Reflections on Baseball. Simon and Schuster, 1997.
  • With a Happy Eye But...: America and the World, 1997–2002. Free Press, 2002.
  • One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation. Crown Publishing Group, 2008.

Notes

  1. ^ Will, George F. (July 13, 2006). "A Mother's Love, Clarified". Washington Post: p. A23. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/12/AR2006071201873.html. 
  2. ^ "George Will Quotes". Baseball Almanac. 2000-2007. http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/george_will_quotes.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-12-15. 
  3. ^ Nightline Special Edition, October 28, 1980
  4. ^ Fresh Air, October 21, 2004.
  5. ^ Will, George F. (August 11, 2005). "Briefing Book Baloney". The Washington Post: p. A23. 
  6. ^ Carter, Jimmy (August 31, 2005). "Putting an End to the 'Briefing Book Baloney'" (Letter to the Editor). The Washington Post: p. A22. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083001763.html. 
  7. ^ Solomon, Norman (January 2, 2004). "George Will's Ethics — None of Our Business?". Counter Punch. http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon01022004.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-31. 
  8. ^ Steinberg, Jacques and Geraldine Fabrikant (December 22, 2003). "Friendship and Business Blur in the World of a Media Baron". New York Times (Reprinted in by CommonDreams.org). http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/22/business/media/22CONR.html?ei=5007&en=92d3f82e75b33f52&ex=1387515600&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=print&position=. Retrieved on 2008-08-31. 
  9. ^ Will, George F. (June 5, 2008). "The Gas Prices We Deserve". Washington Post: p. A19. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/04/AR2008060403052.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns. 
  10. ^ "Yahoo!News article on Cheney's comment on oil drilling". June 13, 2008. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080613/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_oil_drilling. 
  11. ^ Kolawole, Emi (2008). "Are the Chinese drilling off the coast of Cuba?". FactCheck.org. http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/are_the_chinese_drilling_off_the_coast.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-31. 
  12. ^ Will, George F. (February 15, 2009). "Dark Green Doomsayers". http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/13/AR2009021302514.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-19. 
  13. ^ Monbiot, George. George Will's climate howlers, The Guardian. February 18, 2009.
  14. ^ "The Cryosphere Today". February 15, 2009. http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/. Retrieved on 2009-02-19. 
  15. ^ Will, George F. Climate Science in A Tornado Washington Post. February 27, 2009.
  16. ^ Monbiot, George. We all make mistakes but Washington Post's George Will just won't admit his, The Guardian. March 3, 2009.
  17. ^ Mooney, Chris Climate Change Myths and Facts "Washington Post". March 22 2009.
  18. ^ Will's column criticizing blue jeans [1]
  19. ^ Chicago Tribune [2]
  20. ^ CNET [3]
  21. ^ Herald-Mail [4]
  22. ^ Will, George F. (March 2, 2006). "Rhetoric of Unreality: Where Is Iraq After Nearly 3 Years of War?". The Washington Post: p. A21. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/01/AR2006030101935.html. 
  23. ^ Will, George. (Summer 2006). "Cato: Upholding the Idea of Liberty" (PDF). Cato's Letter 4 (3). http://www.cato.org/pubs/catosletter/catosletterv4n3.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-08-31. 
  24. ^ Will, George F. (October 30, 2008). "Call Him John the Careless". The Washington Post: p. A23. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/29/AR2008102903199.html?nav%3Drss_opinion/columns&sub=AR. 
  25. ^ Will, George F. (April 14, 2005). "Eugenics By Abortion: Is perfection an entitlement?". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51671-2005Apr13.html. Retrieved on 2008-09-07. 
  26. ^ Will, George F. (January 29, 2007). "Will: The Attack on Kids With Down Syndrome". Newsweek. Archived from the original on 2007-05-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20070516125514/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16720750/site/newsweek. 
  27. ^ "George Will tells Washington University graduates: "Don't let your babies grow up to be Cub fans"". For Expert Comment. Washington University. May 15, 1998. http://news-info.wustl.edu/FEC/1998/willbb.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-31. 
  28. ^ Will, George F. (April 7, 2008). "The Last Word:'‘Your Brain on Cubs’". Newsweek. http://www.newsweek.com/id/129576/page/1. Retrieved on 2008-08-31. 
  29. ^ "George Will". The Colbert Report. Comedy Central. June 3, 2008. http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?videoId=171135. Retrieved on 2008-06-05. 

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