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...
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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...
12 March 2002
There's a piquant contrast in the press coverage across the
decades of Billy Graham's various private dealings with Nixon, as displayed
on the tapes gradually released...
06 March 2002
Though Britain has been blaring its support for America's "War
on Terror," there is public disquiet in the United Kingdom at one aspect of
the new era of freedom now prevailing in Afghanistan: the renewal of opium
cultivation, banned...
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