I NEED TO CHANGE MY LIFE OR MY OBITUARY WILL GET BURIED.(Editorial)(Column)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: November 23, 1997 | Copyright information

Byline: Tony Kornheiser The Washington Post

The world needs a new Sir Isaiah Berlin. Let it be me.

Berlin, the noted Oxford scholar, died recently. He was very famous. Well, OK, I had never heard of him - I thought maybe Irving Berlin had died again - but he must have been a huge deal because The New York Times front-paged his obit and filled up a whole inside page with praise: ``Sir Isaiah defied classification . . . a bon vivant, a sought-after conversationa...

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