Monthly Archives: October 1999

The Hammer of Justice

10/28/1999 – 3:41 pm

Here’s a piece of news you might have missed if you were watching CNN: a week ago today, a Scottish judge, Margaret Gimblett, acquitted three anti-nuclear protesters on charges of sabotaging a floating laboratory which supports British Trident nuclear submarines.
In June, the protesters – Ellen Moxley, Ulla Roder and Angie Zelter – boarded the laboratory [...]

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Horror Stories

10/21/1999 – 4:40 pm

Autumn is slipping away from the north woods and I’ve been out camping again. Late at night, lying very still in my sleeping bag, I listen to the night sounds, raccoons rustling the dry leaves as they investigate the campsite, the clicking of bare twigs as the wind moves through the trees, the snort [...]

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News to the Senate

10/14/1999 – 4:41 pm

If you really want to understand an issue, find a newspaper reporter, sit him or her in a bar and start buying beer. In 30 minutes, she or he will lay the whole thing out for you with astonishing clarity. Now, why they fail to explain things so clearly when they sit down [...]

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Where I Live

10/7/1999 – 4:43 pm

When you get to a certain age, you find yourself trying to explain your history to the generation that’s coming after you. You think if you can do this, it will help them make sense of the stages of life as they pass through. It may even help you make sense of your [...]

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