SEINFELD’S SWAN SONG CAPTURES THE ’90S
So, what, as Jerry Seinfeld might say, was the deal with "Seinfeld"? Yes, like millions of other Americans, I felt I had to watch the last show of the 9-year-old...
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COMING SOON: A VIAGRA ELITE
Bob and Elizabeth Dole may have told us more than we wanted to know about their sex lives. But I'm glad they did. The 74-year-old former presidential candidate revealed last...
CHILD PORN VS. INTERNET RIGHTS
Journalist Larry Matthews says he intended only to cover some news, not make it. The subject of his research was child pornography on the Internet. Now he's charged with trafficking...
STILL PARTNERS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
It was the first-ever national poll on how blacks and Jews feel about each other and it was keeping Rabbi Marc Schneier awake. Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic...
SPRINGER SHOW DEBASES US ALL
Quite a few people are outraged over allegations that the fights between guests on "The Jerry Springer Show" are staged. This is a big deal, since the brawls on Jerry's...
MISLABELED `QUOTA QUEEN’ STRIKES BACK
Lani Guinier is back in town. Remember her? History will record Lani Guinier as among the few women who brought troubles to President Clinton's life that had nothing to do...
WHEN MEMORIES ARE ALL YOU HAVE
It is a bit jarring, sort of like an out-of-body experience, to open up a copy of the newspaper for whom you work and see your own name in a...
SECOND THOUGHTS ON THAT APOLOGY IDEA
I am taking back what I said earlier about how an official apology for slavery wouldn't mean much. That was my reaction last year, when Rep. Tony P. Hall (D-Ohio)...
TARGETING THE PROBLEM
In the wake of last week's massacre in Jonesboro, Ark., one mother there told a reporter she would rather be the parent of one of the children who died than...
GENETIC RIGHTS: THE NEXT CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT?
If you could preprogram your future children to be tall, strong, smart, good-looking and resistant to diseases, including cancer or AIDS, would you do it? Who wouldn't? You might even...