WHEN `BLING-BLING’ RINGS HOLLOW
Children seem to learn lessons more effectively when you show them than when you tell them. That's why I want to take this opportunity to thank Eminem and Sean "Puffy"...
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ONCE AGAIN, IT IS BILL CLINTON’S GOOD FORTUNE TO BE BLESSED WITH INEPT ENEMIES. THAT’S WHY HE’LL SURVIVE THIS FLAP, WITH CLINTON-HATERS ONCE AGAIN LOOKING LIKE ELMER FUDD TO CLINTON’S BUGS BUNNY.
Welcome to the 'hood, Mr. Former President: My friends in Harlem tell me they're just delighted to hear that you want to set up your new office near them in...
POWELL’S SON HAS HANDS-OFF STYLE
Every so often I catch a TV program that makes me feel really fortunate to have access to modern tools of communication. That's how I felt as I watched one...
WHEN MARRIAGE GOES OUT OF STYLE
British anti-abortion groups are outraged that teenage girls as young as 16 now can buy emergency contraceptive pills, "ECPs," in pharmacies without a prescription. ECPs, a morning-after pill, are intended...
SCHOOL PLAN COULD MISS NEEDIEST TARGETS
President Bush's sweeping school-reform ideas remind me of what the English author Samuel Johnson said of the poet Thomas Gray, "He was dull in a new way, and that made...
A GREAT LEAP FOR FAITH, BUT DON’T OVERSELL IT
It is intriguing to try to follow President Bush's reasoning, although sometimes you could get whiplash from the U-turns. For example, he's getting a lot of heat from critics who...
A BUCK WORTH PASSING FOR A SAVINGS OF $522 MILLION
Page's Principle of Political Proximity and Persistence holds that we all become more conservative the closer we get to home. I think this helps explain why Washington is producing at...
CAREER MOVES: CLINTON’S JOB OPTIONS
Watching George W. Bush work his curious "I'm a Little Teapot" number with an apparently bemused Ricky Martin on an inaugural stage, I realized how much I was going to...
COULD THIS LATEST EPISODE BE THE END OF THE RAINBOW?
Tabloid revelations about the Rev. Jesse Jackson's "love child" are devastating to everyone who ever had faith in him, including, undoubtedly, his wife. Many wonder whether Jackson can recover from...
WHEN OLD LABELS DON’T APPLY
Although I am not crying in my pillow that Linda Chavez won't be running the U.S. Department of Labor, I found an oft-heard criticism of her during the few days...