Has the collapse of Enron finally pushed Social Security
"reform" off the political agenda for the foreseeable future? Half the stock
on Enron employees' 401K retirement plans was Enron paper, contributed as a
company match, for which,...
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05 December 2001
"Arafat is guilty of everything here." Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon declared on television Monday night. "Arafat has made his
strategic choices: a strategy of terrorism." In sync with these fierce
words, Israeli forces launched...
29 November 2001
It had seemed to me that one absolutely certain fact, beyond all
dispute or question, is that the terror attacks of Sept. 11 had no silver
lining, no unexpectedly beneficial fallout. It was, is and will be a
terrible business with...
21 November 2001
The weekend before Thanksgiving, as the Taliban fled into the
Hindu Kush and America's children flocked to "Harry Potter," the nation's
opinion-formers discovered that the Bush administration had hijacked the
Constitution with the...
14 November 2001
Remember the "third degree"? It used to be the standard way many
police departments in this country extracted confessions from criminal
suspects. The practice was sharply diminished after the 1931 Wickersham
Report prepared by the...
09 November 2001
The bombing campaign against the people of Afghanistan will be
described in history as the "U.S. Against the Third World." The launching
of military strikes against peasants does nothing to suppress terrorism, and
only erodes American...
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