On Jan. 15, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and the ninth anniversary of the Gulf war, 10 people will begin a month-long fast on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C. They're members of Voices in the Wilderness, the Chicago-...
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11 January 2000
So here we are in the Year Aught, the millennium's over,
the Christmas tree is down, we're in debt, and here comes January, February,
Ry-Krisp and cottage cheese. Now is the winter of our discontent, so I think
we ought to coordinate our...
07 January 2000
A few numbers tell a dramatic story about extreme changes in media
fascination with the Internet.
After the 1990s ended, I set out to gauge how news coverage of cyberspace shifted during the last half of the decade. The comprehensive...
06 January 2000
It's taken me quite a while to make up my mind about the
Democratic presidential contest. I find Al Gore as discouraging as everybody
else does. Even if you agree with him, imagine trying to work up enthusiasm
for Gore.
I once spent a...
05 January 2000
Let's pause a moment before we head for the exits. I'm talking about the
spectacular, the ludicrous, the humiliating and uproarious discomfiture of
the Y2K doomsayers. How deliciously wrong they were! We're dealing here with
one of the...
04 January 2000
Happpy new millennium, everybody! And wasn't that an
instructive little episode? All those nutters and even normal citizens
conned by doom-mongers into laying in supplies and weapons.
And didn't the media have a lovely time scaring us...
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