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What's worse than ignorance?(Best Of The Web)(Brief Article)(Column)
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Today's Take
Excerpt from March 9
In Today's Take, NCR writers offer reflections on daily news.
Daniel J. Boorstin, the prize-winning author and librarian of Congress from 1975 to 1987, died recently. He once said, "Worse than ignorance is the illusion of knowledge."
After hearing this, my first thoughts were of the weapons of mass destruction and the evidence U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell provided to the U.N. Security Council a year ago. Though much information was provided, knowledge of what was actually happening in Iraq was elusive at best.
But ...
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