* Whatever NBC News pays Richard Engel, its Arabic-speaking, Islamic politics-savvy, Middle East-based foreign correspondent, it’s not enough. Not for what he knows, not for where he goes, not for what he risks. Nobody is better than this native New Yorker.
And if occasional soft-feature contributor, Chelsea Clinton, can pull down $600,000 a year from NBC, the award-winning, intrepid Engel, 40, should be able to write his own ticket.
* For those newspapers who are carrying “Doonesbury Classic,” how timely–and ironic–that early Gary Trudeau took mordant aim at Vietnam. “Classic” cautionary-tale-gone-unheeded couldn’t be, alas, more relevant.