CHEAP SHOTS
Regardless of what alarms you might hear or read elsewhere regarding the Supreme Court's decision to hold school districts liable for severe and pervasive sexual harassment, there is no need...
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JEFFERSON FAMILY’S FEUD AND THE NATION’S
Like many other Americans, I have been following the Thomas Jefferson family feud with a sense of awe, curiosity and, in an oddly perverse way, patriotism. I stand in awe...
MILITARY ACTION
As they did when they entered, the first women to graduate from Virginia Military Institute endured their final insult with style, honor and grace. That's more than I can say...
SAYING `HALT’ TO SUBURBAN SPRAWL
In his crusade to curb suburban sprawl, Vice President Al Gore may be biting off more than he really wants to chew. If any issue ever was meant to be...
JENNY JONES CASE TWISTED JUSTICE
A thought-provoking dispute has emerged in the homosexual-rights community in the wake of the controversial Jenny Jones television show verdict. In case you missed it, a Pontiac, Mich., jury ordered...
JACKSON’S SERBO-AMERICAN ALLY
There were many ironies to U.S. Rep. Rod Blagojevich's recent visit to Yugoslavia, but one stands out with particular poignancy. "The last time my father saw Belgrade, Nazi Germany's bombs...
WORLD PLAYER
Whether you love him or hate him--and many have found it easy to do both at the same time--there is much to admire about Rev. Jesse Jackson's successful retrieval of...
WHEN OUR STEREOTYPES FAIL US
On the night after the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colo., my 9-year-old son gave me an unexpected insight into the tragedy. I tried, at first, to avoid talking...
ALLIES IN THE BOARDROOM
Kenneth I. Chenault's race shouldn't matter. But, of course, it does. It matters enough to be mentioned in the lead paragraph of news stories about American Express Co. naming him...
CAN WE CONNECT WITH THIS GENERATION?
There was President Clinton doing one of the things he does best, offering aid and comfort to a shaken nation in the wake of a tragedy. But then, as he...