AUSTIN, Texas -- As Sherlock Holmes once explained to Watson, the dog that
did NOT bark in the night is the key to the case. Our current presidential
campaign is the sound of no dogs barking.
Here we sit, complacently listening to the...
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09 July 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- We're at an interesting point in our discussions of
globalization, since we are just starting to think about how to think about
it. And we're also at one of those rare points when you can see the
conventional wisdom start...
06 July 2000
Bad Ralph! Bad Ralph
From coast to coast, some big newspapers have been scolding Ralph Nader lately. Why? Because he's running for president, and a lot of people -- according to a recent national poll, 7 percent of the electorate --...
29 June 2000
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....
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...
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