Reagan's Son

The New York Times ^ | January 26, 2003 | BILL KELLER

[ThePythonicCow]

Good article on Bush - surprising to see it in the NY Times. Article is quite a bit longer than my excerpts above - worth reading.

[SevenofNine]

OHHH WOW NY Times praising Dubya you got be kidding but it is true Dubya might be George Bush Sr son he got little bit of Ronnie influence OH YEAH

That true Demos thought Reagan was stupid movie actor he prove them wrong also Dubya is really going on same path too with Ronnie have Demos think he is stupid and prove his intellence RACK ITTT

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks for the thread.Bumping for a read tomorrow.

[stylin19a]

Great article......re: this statement: Bush talks, as Reagan did, about a world of black and white
I see both these presidents as talking more about right and wrong, not black & white...but that's just me quibbling.

[billhilly]

This article got hundreds of responses yesterday. Hope it does as well today.

[Savage Beast]

"And both are simple men who have made a political virtue of being -- in Bush's word -- ''misunderestimated'' by the political elite."

Which is generous euphemism for "dancing circles around the self-appointed 'political elite'".

It's been easy. Both were smarter--much smarter.

You see: both Reagan and George W. Bush are great men and great presidents.

[Mr. Mojo]

How the heck did this gem get past the NY Slimes editor?

[ThePythonicCow]

This article got hundreds of responses yesterday. Hope it does as well today.

Are you saying that it was posted on FR yesterday? My search attempts didn't find any such.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Yep. Pokey78 beat ya to it.

Reagan's Son (George W. Bush)

The New York Times Magazine ^ | 01/25/03 | BILL KELLER

Posted on 01/24/2003 7:02 PM CST by Pokey78

[lorrainer]

Great article. Thanks--I didn't catch it yesterday.

I have to tell you that I had a different image of you, though, until I read your profile page...;o)

[ThePythonicCow]

Aha - by looking at your postings for the last few days, I see the other post of this article.

See Reagan's Son [The NYT Sunday Magazine's cover story re: President GW Bush].

I still can't get this article to show up in a search (searching for "Reagan", nor searching for "son").

Strange.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

The search does strange things when a ' is involved.

Summer had a thread on it too, with the effect it was having on DU. Worth a look too.

[ThePythonicCow]

Admin Moderator:

I added you to this post. Perhaps there is a possible feature request lurking in here somewhere. Seems that an article with the word Reagan's in the title cannot be found searching for Reagan. Also, you may, or may not, want to do anything about the four duplicates of this post.

PeaceBeWithYou:

And summer posted it a second time, a day later.

This is the third day in a row for it. And none of the three posts show up, searching for "Reagan" in the title.

Aha. Search for Reagan's. Turns out that there are four posts of this baby. The fourth being: "Reagan's Son" Very Long New York Times Magazine Story, also posted yesterday, this one by SMGFan.

[Claire Voyant]

Maybe this article is to tell the liberals that Bush is even WORSE than they thought!!!"He's like Reagan....HATE HIM".

[billhilly]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/829756/posts

[Valin]

I would suggest that some NY freepers go do there and look for pods.

[TomServo]

I still can't get this article to show up in a search (searching for "Reagan", nor searching for "son").

The word "Reagan" is not in the title. However, "Reagan's", is. A search for "Reagan's" returns the proper search. And the search feature doesn't work for words with less than 4 letters in them.

[ThePythonicCow]

The word "Reagan" is not in the title. However, "Reagan's", is. A search for "Reagan's" returns the proper search. And the search feature doesn't work for words with less than 4 letters in them.

So apparently the search engines modus operandi is to split titles into words (splitting on white space), then index words >= 4 characters long. No matching on a substring of such a word. The word Reagan is in no way related to the word Reagan's.

Ok - that's an algorithm, as they say. Good as any.

You don't recall seeing this documented anywhere, do you? Or is it up to each of us individually to stumble through the umpteen possible permutations of a search engine, deciphering the behaviour the this one?

... sorry for the rant ... not really fair of me ... thanks for a useful answer.

[TomServo]

4 letters documented here.

One (full) word documented here. Rant on! ;-)

[ThePythonicCow]

One (full) word documented here

So that searches are by full words is mentioned in a post, but not it's not mentioned, until this current thread, what the word delimiter characters are. That is, are words consecutive sequences of alphanumeric characters, or are they consecutive sequences of non-white-space characters.

And the only way, the only way, to find this documentation is to get TomServo on you case for missing (in this case, despite trying hard) previous posts, then ask him?

Time I submitted a couple of suggestions to the admins.

You have been helpful, sir. Thank-you. Nevermind my grumpiness.