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10 April 2002
I’d like to introduce a new term into
drug policy vernacular: chemical bigotry.
We’ve endured the War on Drugs for more than thirty years and seen various threads of injustice weave through it. Until now, no wording has existed to...
10 April 2002
If movies could be convicted of a crime,
this one would be on Death Row.
OK, “Monster’s Ball” is beautifully shot. And the music is haunting in this tale of race, sex, violence and twisted lives in a small town in post-...
OK, “Monster’s Ball” is beautifully shot. And the music is haunting in this tale of race, sex, violence and twisted lives in a small town in post-...
09 April 2002
For those eagerly awaiting the uproar from this writer on the
unspeakable assaults on Palestinians on the West Bank, the carnage in the
camps and the siege of the Holy Church of the Nativity by Sharon's troops, a
word of warning: This...
04 April 2002
Here we are, 20 years on, and many of the reports of what's been
happening as the Israeli army smashes its way through Ramallah, Bethlehem
and the other Palestinian towns reminds me of what came out of Lebanon in
1982 as...
27 March 2002
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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