The Week

■ Exactly ten years after the U.S. incursion into Cambodia, Vietnamese troops based in Cambodia have launched an incursion into Thailand. At last report, Kent State has yet to erupt.

■ Time magazine, May 22, 1950: “There was no disputing it: Harry Truman did well. He reduces the issues, said the New York Times admiringly, ‘to town-size so any dirt farmer can understand them.’ Harry Truman liked the people . . .” That, of course, was back in the good old simplistic days.