Monthly Archives: May 1999

Rites of Passage

5/27/1999 – 5:53 pm

It was one week ago today that I flipped on the radio in the middle of a news report about another shooting at a high school. “Oh no, not again,” I thought. For the first time since the 70s, I started yearning for the end of the school year, except now I hoped there might […]

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War is Hell

5/20/1999 – 5:51 pm

My favorite graffito is one I saw 10 years ago in Washington, DC. It was neatly painted on the brick wall of a abandoned house and read: “Real jobs for real wages. Stop the phoney war on drugs.” A decade later, that “war” is still being fought, with no end in sight. I’m not even […]

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Half a Tank

5/13/1999 – 5:49 pm

How long is forever? It’s the kind of question you might expect to hear in a metaphysics class or a bad love song, but neither of those venues is likely to produce a satisfactory answer. It often depends on context. When a president says “forever” he clearly means until the end of his term, after […]

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Ready, Fire, Aim

5/6/1999 – 5:47 pm

Here’s what I’ve been thinking about the war in the Balkans: If this bombing campaign ever made any sense, which is debatable, that time is surely long past. Our missiles keep hitting refugees in Kosovo and non-combatants in Serbia, and in one tremendous snafu, Bulgaria. On the other hand, how can we let the ethnic […]

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