"I leave The Times feeling as reverent about it as I did when I arrived," writes Frank Rich in his farewell column, "Confessions of a Recovering Op-Ed Columnist."
Providing the personal back
story on his Times career -- almost 14 years as drama critic, 17 years as op-ed columnist -- he begins with an anecdote about long-ago political pundit Walter Lippmann and ends with a lyric from a
Sondheim song: "Stop worrying where you're going. Move on."
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