The Emperor’s New Clothes is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s well-known fairly tales. In the story, weavers are making an invisible cloth for the Emperor’s “new clothes”. The weavers claimed that anyone who couldn’t see the...
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01 October 2000
You remember Steven Kanner, a local activist who refused dominant values, whether by riding the bus instead of a car, refusing to wear leather tennis shoes, or dreaming of working in a cooperative tofu factory. One of my best...
01 October 2000
In 1993, Sarah and Elizabeth Delany became overnight celebrities with the publication of their memoir, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, written in collaboration with
New York Times reporter Amy Hill Hearth...
27 September 2000
Nothing has been more comical that Gore's "populist" posturings about the Republicans being the ticket of Big Oil, and he and Lieberman being the champions of the little people.
This is the man whose education and Tennessee homestead...
20 September 2000
The collapse of the government's case against Wen Ho Lee last week
represents one of the greatest humiliations of a national newspaper in the
history of journalism. One has to go back to the publication by the London
Times of the Pigott...
13 September 2000
Within the past two weeks, we've a report from the FBI on the "school
shooter" threat profile, which again strains to make a link between popular
culture and teenage mass murderers. We've had a report from the Federal
Trade Commission...
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