AL GORE’S BIGGEST BURDEN IS AL GORE
Poor Al Gore. This is the summer of his discontent. He has been trailing Republican front-runner George W. Bush in the polls. Even women voters, who gave the Clinton-Gore ticket...
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IN PRAISE OF SLOWNESS IN A SPEEDY AGE
Chapters Literary Bookstore, a classy, little bookseller on K Street near the White House, has found a novel way to face a business crisis. The owners are asking their most...
CONGRESS’ `SOLUTIONS’ TO CURB YOUTH VIOLENCE ARE RIDDLED WITH PROBLEMS
It is just as well that Congress voted down Rep. Henry Hyde's attempt to ban the distribution of "obscenely violent" materials to minors. The Illinois Republican's measure was too strong...
YOUNG `DUBYA’ KNOWS HOW TO TURN ON THE CHARM
My first encounter with George W. Bush gave me an unexpected insight. It was early 1995. I was flying between Dallas and Washington when I heard someone say, "Hi, governor."...
BOB BARR ISN’T BEWITCHED BY MILITARY WICCANS
When it comes to persistence, you have to hand it to Rep. Bob Barr. Some critics accused the Georgia Republican of engaging in a witch hunt when he pressed for...
. . . AND SAY A LITTLE PRAYER FOR CALVERT COUNTY
As a child of a religious household, I was taught to pray while bowing my head and folding my hands. I have been praying that way ever since. But, increasingly,...
LOOKING FOR WORK
Topic A here in the Big Apple and the rest of the Empire State is not whether Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to run for the U.S. Senate, now that...
ENTERTAINMENT CIVILITY, FOR NOW ANYWAY
Until a few weeks ago a reduction in network television violence seemed about as likely as a prayer meeting in the Playboy mansion. Ah, what a difference a high school...
RESISTANCE TO SCHOOL VOUCHERS BY AFRICAN-AMERICANS IS STARTING TO CHANGE
An important crack has opened up in black America's once impenetrable wall of resistance to school vouchers. The eyebrow-raising split occurred in Miami between two of America's oldest and most...
IS HE OR ISN’T HE?
It had to happen sooner or later. "Star Wars" is politically incorrect. The controversy centers around Jar Jar Binks, a goofy amphibian of an alien species known as the Gungan,...