RON BROWN MURDER PLOT HAS TOO MANY HOLES
If the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was murdered, it was by the luckiest and the unluckiest murderer in the world. Somehow, the assassin got aboard Ron Brown's Air Force...
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OUR IRRATIONAL PURSUIT OF THE DEATH SENTENCE
Something in the Unabomber trial reminds me of Joseph Heller's "Catch-22." The "catch" in that satirical World War II novel was that pilots could get out of flying dangerous missions...
`GIRLS’ JUST WANT TO MAKE A COMEBACK
Judging by the array of pornography magazines on display and packaged in shrink-wrap behind the checkout counter at my neighborhood's 7-Eleven there is now a skin magazine called, "Girls Over...
OF BARBIE DOLLS AND RACIAL DIALOGUE
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave herself a new Barbie doll. At first, I thought Santa had made a mistake. (Sure, I still believe. Don't you?)...
RACE CONSCIOUS
A subtle shift has occurred in the national debate on race. Slowly but surely, the language is getting more specific. You can hear the change in major news broadcasts and...
PONDERING HOLIDAY PANIC PEDDLERS
Oh, no. It is that time again. It is time for the Great American Parent Panic, a frantic occasion otherwise known as the Christmas shopping season. Don we now our...
WHY RENO SOURED ON SPECIAL COUNSELS
Although she is loathe to admit it, Atty. Gen. Janet Reno has softened her position on the need for special independent counsels to investigate sitting presidents or their administrations. The...
BIDDING BYE-BYE TO SLAVEHOLDERS’ SCHOOLS
Few people outside of Orleans Parish took much notice when the school board decided in 1992 to strip the names of former slave owners off of its public schools. Nobody...
WHERE DOES THE NATION GO FROM HERE?
a quiet disaster has accompanied the setbacks affirmative action has suffered in recent months. It is a disaster in misperceptions, widely held and deeply felt, that the end of affirmative...
WHEN MORE IS LESS IN MULTIPLE BIRTHS
As I watched Bobbi McCaughey looking a little shell-shocked in her first public appearance after giving birth to septuplets, I wanted the television producers to superimpose a warning across the...