Author Archives: floegel

Lucid Intervals

7/11/2002 – 4:36 pm

Schizophrenia is a disease characterized by visual and auditory hallucinations and paranoid delusions. It frequently manifests itself in late adolescence or early adulthood. People who suffer from schizophrenia live in a world where some of what they perceive is real and some is illusion, but they cannot differentiate between the two. Researchers have announced the […]

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Turning a Blind Eye

7/4/2002 – 4:32 pm

Happy birthday, America. You’re two hundred and twenty-six today. We’re throwing ourselves a party and if no other nations attend, that’s OK too. We don’t really like them anyway. The International Criminal Court was born Monday and the American ambassador to the United Nations, John Negroponte, was on hand to slap the baby. It seems […]

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Evolving Decency

6/27/2002 – 4:30 pm

George Bush is again clamoring for the ouster of a democratically elected leader; the financial world is crumbling under reports of widespread corruption, but there is some good news. In the last week, the Supreme Court ruled states may not execute the mentally retarded and that juries, not judges, shall decide whether to apply the […]

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Q and A

6/20/2002 – 4:27 pm

President Bush announced this week that the U.S. military has been authorized to make pre-emptive strikes against nations or groups believed to be harboring weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Bush said while U.S. forces cannot assassinate a foreign head of state, soldiers may kill a head of state if they are acting in self-defense. We […]

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The Man Without a Country

6/13/2002 – 4:26 pm

The announcement this week of the arrest of Jose Padilla, also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, brings the number of American-born Taliban to three that we know of. The latest addition to the list was born in Brooklyn, raised in Chicago and has a history of violent crime dating back 15 years. Mr. al-Muhajir was arrested […]

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American Taliban

6/6/2002 – 4:24 pm

Can John Walker Lindh get a fair trial? Should we care if he doesn’t? Known in the media as the “American Taliban,” Mr. Lindh left his Islamic studies in Pakistan last year to join the Taliban in Afghanistan. He stayed with them after the events of September 11th and was captured by Northern Alliance troops. […]

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The Ugly American

5/30/2002 – 4:22 pm

The president has been traveling in Europe. Now that the U.S. is the world’s only superpower, the White House road show gives us an idea of what it must have been like when a Roman emperor went on a tour of tributary states. It hasn’t been pretty. In Berlin, 10,000 protesters took to the asphalt […]

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