Monthly Archives: March 1999

Not About Race, But Opportunity

3/25/1999 – 5:33 pm

It’s spring and the great migrations are underway. From throughout the north, college students are heading south for a week or ten days of sunstroke, public inebriation and reverse peristalsis. In college towns, administrators have a week to sort out all the nagging paperwork that never seems to get finished while the kids are around. […]

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Wanna Buy a Nuke?

3/18/1999 – 12:03 pm

Hey, friend. You there, yes, you. The one with the lights on, running the computer, the stereo. Did I just hear the compressor on your refrigerator kick on? You’re sucking a lot of juice there. Your electric meter must be spinning like a pinwheel in a hurricane. I’ve got a special deal for you – […]

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Odzihozo

3/11/1999 – 5:31 pm

From my window, I can see Odzihozo, sitting in the lake, wearing a coat of rime and snow. He looms out of the fog, or is obscured by a squall of snow, but sooner or later everything clears and I see him where he has always been – watchful, immutable, staring at the world he […]

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Real History

3/4/1999 – 5:29 pm

Today’s news is tomorrow’s history. I’m fascinated by both subjects, and when I was in college, I took degrees in journalism and history. I don’t know why it isn’t required of all journalism students. In the last ten years we’ve seen the development of instant history. No sooner does an event hit the newspapers than […]

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