Monthly Archives: February 2003

Return to Earth

2/27/2003 – 3:33 pm

A woman with whom I went to high school is an astronaut in the space shuttle program. When the Columbia broke apart over Texas a few weeks ago, I – and I suppose a number of people in our graduating class – passed moments of heightened anxiety until we learned she was not on board. […]

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Winter of Our Discontent

2/20/2003 – 3:29 pm

In the end, it all comes down to weather. The war hawks in the upper echelon of the Bush administration feel the weather window on an Iraq invasion will soon be closing. We learned 12 years ago that the best time to send an army into the Babylonian desert is in early February. Early February […]

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Neither Privilege Nor Luxury

2/13/2003 – 3:27 pm

I’m writing this on Wednesday morning; I’ve got a deadline to meet. In the next office, a public-interest health care advocate is preparing legislative testimony on medical malpractice insurance. Her documents show jury awards for medical malpractice are not outrageous, as some doctors and the insurance industry would have us believe. The rising cost of […]

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Here’s Your Chance

2/6/2003 – 3:24 pm

I went down to the Salvation Army Tuesday afternoon; it could as easily have been a terminal at JFK International Airport. People from every nation, women and men, old and young overflowed the rooms and spilled into the hall. They were in the dining room, the kitchen, in the “Corps Hall” or Salvation Army chapel. […]

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