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28 December 2001
In the Media Mix, What Happens to Music?
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Norman Solomon
The last pages of a calendar remind us that life is fleeting. All we have at any moment is the present, filtered with memory.

Meanwhile, music -- capable of powerfully evoking what's past but not quite gone -- can be a...
27 December 2001
Afghanistan -- What We Need to Do
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas --- Until a few days ago, it seemed there were only two ways we could possibly lose the war in Afghanistan at this late date. The first was if great numbers of Afghans starve to death this winter, thus canceling out the...
20 December 2001
Annual Christmas Booklist
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Molly Ivins
AAUSTIN, Texas -- Fellow procrastinators of the world, unite! Now is the time to begin thinking about Christmas shopping. We still have a few days left, so there's no rush for those who have been known to do it all on Christmas morning...
20 December 2001
Bad News When Madmen Lead the Blind
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Norman Solomon
The autumn started with a huge national jolt of shock, fear, grief and anger. Winter has begun with many worries here at home and grim satisfaction about warfare abroad. A line from "King Lear," early in Act 4, is hauntingly appropriate...
18 December 2001
Israel and Palestine Today
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- Since we have declared war on a noun, we are now by definition in the definition business. The shortest version of our definitional problem, as we see in attacks from India to Israel, is that one man's terrorist is another man...
13 December 2001
Public Lands and Corporate Mining
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, many political observers had a theory that whenever he started holding photo ops with adorable little children, it was time to grab your wallet because it meant some unconscionable...

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