George Orwell's birthday passed without notice recently. Born on June 25,
1903, the great English writer has been dead for half a century, but
Orwellian language lives on.
These days we have plenty of good reasons to echo poet W.H....
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27 June 2000
AUSTIN , Texas -- Some who read Sunday's New York Times magazine on "The
Education of a Holy Warrior'' -- about a Muslim religious seminary in
Pakistan that is deeply influenced by the Taliban of Afghanistan -- found it
profoundly...
24 June 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- So you're going along thinking it's the year 2000,
Information Age, digital revolution, high-tech economy, all that jazz, and
then you look at the headlines.
American General, one of the biggest insurance companies in...
22 June 2000
It's media spin in overdrive: Major security breaches have jeopardized the
vital work going on at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where scientists
toil to protect America.
But after many years of monitoring key weapons policies,...
21 June 2000
The Supremes are probably right about prayer at football
games in the Santa Fe School District case, but you must admit that there's
a slight cultural gap here. The court's decision noted that the Fifth
Circuit had ruled that students...
20 June 2000
HOUSTON -- My favorite thing at the Texas Republican Convention was the
advertising in the back of the hall that constituted an almost perfect
record of the major scandals, conflicts of interest and bad public policy
that have occurred...
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