AUSTIN, Texas -- My friend Linda Aaker recently visited Europe and came
back talking, as Americans so often do, about the great public
transportation in this country, the terrific child-care system in that
country and the wonderful public...
02 June 2000
AUSTIN -- Well, isn't that special? The governor has granted a 30-day stay
to a man on death row so we can figure out from DNA evidence whether the guy
should be on Death Row. He may well be, but it'll be nice to be certain for
a change....
01 June 2000
Every four years, when summer begins, the national media curtain rises on
an overheated stage of presidential politics. Like drama critics clutching
their programs, thousands of journalists are keenly alert to the feverish
orchestration...
31 May 2000
Personal note to George W. Bush: Wasn't that a great graduation ceremony
last Thursday night? I know you are terribly proud of your daughters,
Barbara and Jenna.
You probably remember Kristy Reyna -- she was the only one of the 400...
30 May 2000
Someone made the odd, maybe malicious, certainly rash decision to put Tom
Wolfe on the right-hand side of the cover of Harper's new 150th anniversary
issue, facing Mark Twain, a leonine, earthy, dignified old devil, sitting in
alert...
28 May 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- We are having one of those brief but glorious moments when
our attention is focused on foreign affairs, so let's hare right after the
sucker.
Much in the news is the charmingly misleading headline that says, "Bush...