SORTING OUT BILL AND HILLARY’S MARITAL `ARRANGEMENT’
Some people don't know how to mind their own business. The Rev. Jerry Falwell offered a good example when he ruminated out loud recently about the marriage of Bill and...
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HOW TO STAGE-MANAGE MILITARY ACTION
When a reporter responded to major American military action last week by asking Defense Secretary William S. Cohen if he had seen the movie "Wag the Dog," the holes in...
IT’S TIME, MR. PRESIDENT
President Clinton's apology for his improper relationship with Monica Lewinsky raises an old question. It is a question I first heard expressed in Joe Klein's "Primary Colors" novel. That's the...
DOING KIDS’ TIME FOR ADULT CRIMES
Hard to believe. That's the natural reaction to kids killing other kids. It was hard to believe reports that two Chicago boys, aged 7 and 8, were accused of killing...
BLACKS VOTING WITH THEIR FEET AND THEIR POLITICAL SEATS
This is the summer of Democratic discontent--and I am not talking about Monica Lewinsky. I'm talking about leading Democrats in key states who suddenly find themselves struggling to hold onto...
BLACKS VOTING WITH THEIR FEET AND THEIR POLITICAL SEATS
This is the summer of Democratic discontent--and I am not talking about Monica Lewinsky. I'm talking about leading Democrats in key states who suddenly find themselves struggling to hold onto...
PREMARITAL SEX AND THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
While the eyes of the nation are riveted on Our Great National Sex Scandal in Washington, another sex scandal with national implications is raising questions just as vexing. It involves...
FINDING THOSE WHO VANISHED FROM WELFARE’S SAFETY NET
Welfare caseloads have dropped like stones in the two years since President Clinton signed a landmark welfare reform bill into law. But every silver lining has its cloud. a cloud...
IN WASHINGTON, DAYS OF WHINE AND POSES
It was a great day for the whiners. At lunch time in Memphis, there was Clarence Thomas capping off his free meal at the National Bar Association's convention by bemoaning...
AMERICANS LOVE LISTS, SO HERE ARE A COUPLE MORE
When I overheard a couple of red-vested women in our neighborhood's volunteer security patrol discussing how many of the "100 greatest English-language novels" they had read, I realized several things:...