For those eagerly awaiting the uproar from this writer on the
unspeakable assaults on Palestinians on the West Bank, the carnage in the
camps and the siege of the Holy Church of the Nativity by Sharon's troops, a
word of warning: This...
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04 April 2002
Here we are, 20 years on, and many of the reports of what's been
happening as the Israeli army smashes its way through Ramallah, Bethlehem
and the other Palestinian towns reminds me of what came out of Lebanon in
1982 as...
27 March 2002
Call it the year of the yellow notepad. Doris Kearns Goodwin,
ejected from Parnassus, from Pulitzer jury service and kindred honorable
obligations, sinks under charges of plagiarism consequent, she claims, upon
sloppy note-taking on her...
27 March 2002
The ripe tones of Cardinal Mahoney of Los Angeles filled my
house Tuesday morning, courtesy of NPR. Mahoney spoke of his horror, his
shame at the stories of priest abuse. He apologized to the victims. The
mellifluous sanctimony of his...
20 March 2002
Saddam Hussein's regime is ordering thousands of small
generators, which tells us that, for one, Saddam Hussein reckons that a U.S.
attack may indeed be in the offing. When the bombing starts and the central
generating stations get...
19 March 2002
Tip-skimming has surfaced in Boston, and there can't be a tipper
in America who, on hearing the news, doesn't exclaim, "The greedy bastards!"
In a lawsuit filed March 7 in Suffolk Superior Court, five former servers
from the...