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03 January 2002
A New Season
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN -- Here comes everyone's favorite season: The tree is down, the bills are due, January, February, Ry-Krisp and cottage cheese.

T'is the festive season for one of our nation's leading industries --...
03 January 2002
The Discreet Charm of the Straight Spin
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Norman Solomon
If my memory is correct, it was a Jerry Lewis movie. More than 40 years later, I still remember the scenes of a grown man so gullible that he believed his television. What a laugh riot! The guy dashed out to shop every time a commercial...
02 January 2002
What do you do when the money leaves?
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Molly Ivins
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...
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...

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