INDIRECT FORMS OF TEEN SUICIDE
Like countless other African-Americans, I used to take a certain devilish pride in the myth that, no matter how bad things might get, black people don't commit suicide, as a...
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Why do children pick the most awkward moments to show an interest in public affairs? "60 Minutes" was on and, suddenly, my 8-year-old son was picking up every word. "Dad?"...
A BIT OF BITTERSWEET REALITY FOR IRISH BOOSTERS
Appropriate to the season of St. Patrick's Day, several state legislatures are pushing bills that would require schools to teach children about the Irish potato famine. As a common 'tater,...
REVISITING KERNER: A HALF-RIGHT PREDICTION
Thirty years after the historic Kerner Commission predicted a deepening racial divide in America, an offshoot group is lamenting how true that prediction turned out to be. That's a mistake,...
HIGH COURT HELPS NERDS GET REVENGE
It may go down as the great "nerd protection" decision of 1998. That's how history may remember the Supreme Court's decision to expand sexual harassment protection to people of the...
NOW VS. NOW
Where, many ask, are the feminists on the Monica Lewinsky controversy? A recent protest by a Fairfax County, Va., chapter of the National Organization for Women indicates they're all over...
OPRAH’S SAFE, BUT `VEGGIE LIBEL’ THREAT ALSO `ROCKS’
If you think Oprah Winfrey's stunning victory over cattlemen on their home turf puts an end to those silly "veggie libel" laws, think again. Winfrey couldn't have said it better...
CODE OF HONOR
Character, Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.) likes to say, is what you do when nobody's looking. That's setting the bar pretty high. We do a lot of things in private that...
ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER QUAGMIRE
Watching protesters heckle his top national security advisers over America's involvement in Iraq must have given President Clinton a peculiar case of deja vu. He has been in this scene...
THIS DISEASE AFFLICTS CITIZENS OF PRIVILEGE
When Mike Wallace profiled President Clinton's First Buddy Vernon Jordan on CBS's "60 Minutes," Wallace said he and his researchers had been unable to find anyone in Washington who would...