After President Bush’s “win this war” speech to Congress Thursday night, Senate majority leader Tom Daschle and Senate minority leader Trent Lott strode to a podium where Lott declared, “Tonight,
Al Giordano is currently a free-speech defendant in the New York State Supreme Court [see Mark Schapiro, “Drug War on Trial,” September 17, 2001].
The monstrous events of September 11 have given the United States a second historic chance, after the squandered opportunity of the 1990s, to establish a truly cooperative relationship with post-C
So V.S. Naipaul finally gets the prize.
It’s said he’s willing, through unblinking eyes,
To make his observations, then recall
The bleakest Third World countries, warts and all.
While valuing his writing, I still think
It wouldn’t hurt if, now and then, he’d blink.
War skeptics such as Richard Gere, Susan Sontag, Rep.