Living with black people (American stories)
My name is Roger, and I'm a white man. I strike these stories like little matches, to flare briefly against a week that ends, at last, the American apartheid. Denver, Colorado, 1957: My parents had a home on a crowded street near City Park. A white French expatriate, Ann Aire, lived with a huge American black man, Denny Small, two doors down. Full Story
10 Bush mistakes
At his final press conference, President Bush said pursuing Social Security reform instead of immigration reform immediately after the 2004 election was a "mistake," as was hanging the "Mission Accomplished" banner on the tower of the USS Abraham Lincoln. Now home in Texas, Mr. Full Story
The bailout's baggage
GUEST OPINION
For a nation in the midst of an economic crisis, the period between Election Day and Inauguration Day has seemed to drag like an amateur production of "Long Day's Journey Into Night. Full Story
The hills are alive…
MUSINGS
Doctor, is (s)he alive?" " The words accompany a grainy black and white film of three characters in a hospital room. On the bed is the motionless patient. Bent over the patient at right angle, with theatrical expression large enough for a Greek chorus mask, is a person not sure if it is the moment to begin mourning. Full Story
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