Nabbed for speeding in my 1964 Newport station wagon ("I didn't think this old wreck would go that fast," the Highway Patrol officer said sarcastically as he wrote me up), I opted for traffic school.
Under California law, you can thus...
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29 October 1999
A specter is haunting America -- the specter of populism.
Now that Patrick Buchanan has left the Republican fold to seek the Reform Party's presidential nomination, a lot of journalists will be analyzing his...
29 October 1999
With the start of 2000 less than two months away, I've been thinking about
a beloved American writer who stuck his neck out the last time people went
through a change of centuries.
We revere Mark Twain as a superb...
22 October 1999
If you're watching much television these days, you've probably seen a lot
of commercials for online investing. Many large brokerage firms are now
urging people to play the stock market via the Internet. So, in routine
fashion, TV...
20 October 1999
On Oct. 13, Bill Clinton made his way, by way of helicopter and SUV, to the George Washington forest in the Shenandoah Mountains, where he disclosed his plan to protect 40 million acres of roadless land in national forests across the...
15 October 1999
This is a tale of two magazines.
One of them has more than 100 colorful pages of ads packed into each issue. Brand names evoke the very good life just out of reach: Saks and Victoria's Secret, Gucci and Mercedes-Benz,...
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