AUSTIN, Texas -- Ecuador recently moved to the dollar standard for its
economy in an effort to bail itself out of one of those credit-flight crises
that seems to afflict countries like a case of flu going around the globe.
The...
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28 December 2001
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...
Meanwhile, music -- capable of powerfully evoking what's past but not quite gone -- can be a...
27 December 2001
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
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
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
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...
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