National Journal articles from September 2001

National Journal archives from September 2001

STRANGE AND TRUE: GORE'S GANG DID SOMETHING RIGHT.
September 1, 2001... The new campaign memoir of George W. Bush's media strategist may seem like a strange place for Al Gore's much-maligned political cadre to look for reassurance that they did not predicate their entire effort on an obvious, inexplicable,...

BLACKS DESERVE REPARATIONS--BUT NOT FOR SLAVERY.
September 1, 2001... Gradually, it is dawning on mainstream America that the issue of reparations for slavery is not going away. Just recently, there was the Bush Administration's struggle to dissuade the United Nations' World Conference Against Racism--scheduled...

Nice Work, If You Can Get It.
September 1, 2001... THE TRADITION OF TAPPING WELL-HEELED DONORS FOR DIPLOMATIC POSTS CARRIES RISKS. George W. Bush's signature cowboy boots were nowhere to be seen when the President and the first lady lunched on salmon terrine and roasted lamb with the...

Border Games.(illegal immigrants from Mexico)
September 1, 2001... RECORD NUMBERS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE POURING IN FROM MEXICO. CAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DO ANYTHING TO. STOP THEM? Think of it as an illegal drug: Huge quantities cross our Southwest border each year. The federal government spends...

AS THE SURPLUS DROPS, SO DO EXPECTATIONS.
September 1, 2001... Move in the hearses. As lawmakers return to Washington after Labor Day, they may find that Capitol Hill is starting to look like a massive morgue. Given the shrinking surplus--and the shrinking legislative calendar--many presidential and...

NEXT BATTLE IN THE STEM-CELL WAR.
September 1, 2001... In the wake of President Bush's decision to provide federal support for research on some stem cells taken from human embryos, the debate is shifting to funding priorities and to related arguments over human cloning. One of the central...

KEEPING THE FAITH, QUIETLY.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Senate is sitting on the President's faith-based legislation, John DiIulio has resigned his high-profile position as director of the White House Office of Faith/Based and Community Initiatives, and news organizations have publicly declared...

SHRINKING-SURPLUS SYNDROME.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The potency of the recent to-ing and fro-ing over new surplus and economic growth forecasts became clearer to me this week while visiting a patient in a hospital just outside of Washington. A nurse, making idle conversation with her bedridden...

MAKE THE GRADE AT HOME ...(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Give President Bush a "B+" for his opening efforts on education--almost half (49 percent) of adults surveyed by Gallup said that Dubya will do a better job of improving schools than former President Clinton did. In the poll, conducted by Gallup...

... BUT STAY OUT OF CONFLICTS ABROAD.(international relations)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... As Bush called on Middle East leaders to stop the violence between Israelis and Palestinians, a majority of those surveyed by Gallup for CNN and USA Today said that the United States should not be a key player in the negotiations to restore...

STEM CELLS, NOT CLONES.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Although a majority of Americans generally favor stem-cell research, cloning gets far less support, a poll for ABC News and Beliefnet finds. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said it should be illegal in the United States to clone a human...

THE FAITH FACTOR.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... What ideas most influence Americans' opinions on cloning? A plurality (36 percent) said they were guided by their religious beliefs. Nonreligious beliefs were the next greatest influence, with 17 percent, followed by education (16 percent),...

HALF-FULL, OR HALF-EMPTY?(interest rate cuts)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Although the Federal Reserve Board recently announced its seventh rate cut of the year, in yet another attempt to jump-start the nation's economy, Americans surveyed for ABC News and Money magazine remain unimpressed with the way things are...

MEN, WOMEN, AND DIRECTIONS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... While the electorate as a whole is divided on the direction the nation is taking, men and women have distinctly different viewpoints, according to an Ipsos-Reid poll. Among all respondents, 49 percent said the nation is "seriously off on the...

NAH ... LET'S WAIT FOR THE DVD.
September 1, 2001... Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have signed book deals. Do you think you would rather read Bill's book or Hillary's book? ALL D R IND. MEN WOMEN BILL'S 19% 27% 13% 17% 24% 14%...

TROLLING FOR TREE-HUGGERS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... With the dynamics of Congress in flux following the Democratic takeover of the Senate, some Republican lobbyists have been on the lookout for clients in the environmental community. One prominent example is Gregg D. Renkes, who founded his...

Grover's the Go-To Guy.(Grover Norquist)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Anti-tax honcho Grover Norquist has been helping to lead the Social Security privatization charge, setting up meetings among conservative groups and Bush Administration bigwigs. Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform and one of the...

NFIB Goes Outside for Talent.(National Federation of Independent Business)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... When it comes to lobbying on Capitol Hill, the National Federation of Independent Business almost never goes outside for help. But in what it calls "a very targeted decision," the influential small business group recently retained former Rep....

No Wonder He's an Ex-Governor.(Robert List)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Nuclear Energy Institute, the Washington trade group that represents nuclear power companies, has inked a multiyear contract with former Nevada Republican Gov. Robert List, now a lobbyist in Las Vegas. List signed up to promote the federal...

A PUBLIC FEUD BY PRIVACY ADVOCATES.
September 1, 2001... As the Senate and House Commerce Committees inch toward consideration this fall of bills that would seek to preserve the privacy of Internet users and shoppers, Washington's two most prominent privacy advocates--Jerry Berman and Marc...

WASHINGTON SNUBS A CONFERENCE ON RACE.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... As the United Nations convenes its World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, this week, the U.S. government will either be absent or represented at a low diplomatic level. This slighting of the world gathering is nothing new....

BELLY AND BRAIN.(Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture)(Review)
September 1, 2001... What I did on my summer vacation was fall in love. It's been years since this happened, so long I'd almost forgotten what it's like--that radiant feeling, the air of wild surrender that takes over when your lover, your sweet poulet, comes in...

An Old Wife's Tale.(Review)
September 1, 2001... An Old Wife's Tale By Midge Decter ReganBooks 234 pages $24.00 A big problem much of the literature of the anti-feminist "backlash" of recent years is that even when it is worthwhile, it sounds bratty. How could it not? So much of it was...

American Crucible.(Review)
September 1, 2001... American Crucible By Gary Gerstle Princeton University Press 325 pages $29.95 The United States is engaged in a huge social policy experiment. Welfare reform, right? Well, yes. But there is an even bigger one going on--immigration. America...

TRADE'S VICTIMS, IGNORED.(trade adjustment assistance program)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Even the most jaded of Washingtonians are likely to find the convergence of events here in late September a step or two beyond the pale. While protesters expected to flock to the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International...

RETURNING TO GRIM FISCAL FORECASTS.
September 1, 2001... Once upon a time, George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans must have looked forward to coming back to Washington after their summer recess. After all, Bill Clinton had demonstrated time and again that with the bully pulpit of the White House,...

THE CURTAIN IS FALLING ON SEVERAL SENATE ERAS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The announced retirements of Senate Republicans Strom Thurmond of South Carolina and Jesse Helms of North Carolina mark the end of several eras in American politics. In 1972, the year I moved to Washington, the Senate was ruled by a handful of...

Political Stripes.(Ida L. Castro joins the Democratic National Committee)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... "I arrived in the government, like many, thinking: `Oh well, the federal government is impossible to change. No one cares,'" said Ida L. Castro. Now, after seven years, Castro, 49, says she has left federal service with a completely different...

James H. Quello says he prides himself on being an "active" 87-year-old. To stay that way, the former longtime member of the Federal Communications Commission is vetoing retirement in favor of a government relations consulting gig at the Washington law firm Wiley Rein & Fielding.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... James H. Quello says he prides himself on being an "active" 87-year-old. To stay that way, the former longtime member of the Federal Communications Commission is vetoing retirement in favor of a government relations consulting gig at the...

Talk about being in the right place at the right time.(government relations company Advantage Associates Inc. hires Stephen Hofmann)(Stephen Hofmann)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Talk about being in the right place at the right time. Former Hill staffer Stephen Hofmann got his new job after talking to a stranger on a Washington-bound airplane. The stranger was George W. Works, a top associate at the government relations...

When John Lott was a 16-year-old living in Miami, the house next door was sold to an economics professor.(economist becomes resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... When John Lott was a 16-year-old living in Miami, the house next door was sold to an economics professor. Lott, then an aspiring historian, asked his new neighbor to recommend books. The teenager carted home and devoured seven economics texts...

Following three years as the flack-in-chief chief for the liberal interest group People for the American Way, Nancy Coleman has returned to the world of labor policy.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Following three years as the flack-in-chief chief for the liberal interest group People for the American Way, Nancy Coleman has returned to the world of labor policy. She just joined the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank, as...

Associated General Contractors of America.(selection of chief economist)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The Associated General Contractors of America has hired its first chief economist. The major trade association for building and highway contractors recently tapped veteran economist Kenneth D. Simonson to fill the post. The association...

As a student of politics at Catholic University, Michael Reynard hoped to land a job with the Secret Service or the FBI.(now press secretary for Sen. Jim Bunning)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... As a student of politics at Catholic University, Michael Reynard hoped to land a job with the Secret Service or the FBI. As a fallback, however, he applied for a Capitol Hill internship. Now Reynard, 26, is happy he got his second choice. After...

IT'S STILL THE ECONOMY, STUPID.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... The plunging surplus has given Democrats a new issue: the budget. How odd, then, that President Bush went to Harry S. Truman High School in Independence, Mo., last week to defend his budget policy. The President was betting that Republicans...

Building Blocks.(public education)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... A commentary on public education and other critical issues It's September and the return of yellow school buses and back-to-school sales reminds us that a record 53 million kids are heading back to the classroom. Of those children, nearly...

SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE SURPLUS OF BOGUS DEBATE.
September 8, 2001... The sky is falling. The earth is quaking. Our country is going to hell in a handbasket. The surplus has vaporized, and between all the raiding, tapping, and dipping into the Social Security trust fund that will result, it could be a matter of...

CENSORING `ISSUE ADS': A DIRECT ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH.(campaign finance reform)
September 8, 2001... The way it's typically portrayed in the media, campaign finance reform is a push to stop big companies and other wealthy interests from buying influence by funneling huge "soft-money" contributions to federal candidates through their political...

TAKE IT FROM A CURMUDGEON: THE NEWS ISN'T ALL BAD.(economy)
September 8, 2001... The most dangerous time for any economy is just after the bursting of a financial market bubble. Nobody any longer doubts that the tech-stock market, along with parts of the wider market for equities, was a bubble that has well and truly burst....

Always a Borrower Be.(credit card debt)
September 8, 2001... AMERICANS ARE ON A NATIONAL SHOPPING SPREE OF DEBT. WE ARE MORE IN HOCK THAN EVER, AND YET INCREASINGLY COMFORTABLE WITH IT. WHAT GIVES? PARAMUS, N.J.--In the annals of the American shopping mall, Paramus Park can't claim to be the...

Lobbying, Euro-Style.
September 8, 2001... AFTER REPEATED MISSTEPS, U.S. COMPANIES ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PLAY THE INFLUENCE GAME IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. BRUSSELS--You've heard plenty about their battles with the Bush Administration over global warming and missile defense,...

PILING UP THE HEALTH CARE BILLS.(plans for uninsured)
September 8, 2001... Patients' rights and prescription drug legislation are the health care initiatives at the front of the line for Congress's attention. But influential proponents of another proposal--to help provide health care coverage to the 39 million...

PIVOTAL EVENTS IN CONGRESS.
September 8, 2001... SEPTEMBER 4-6 Fiscal Finger-Wagging Heavy in First Week To no one's surprise, the budget blame game escalated as soon as lawmakers returned to the Capitol this week following the August recess. Even high-level meetings between...

UNABASHED ON ABSTINENCE.(limiting premarital sex)(Statistical Data Included)
September 8, 2001... When George W. Bush, himself the father of two adolescent daughters, campaigned for President, he didn't shy away from talking about teenagers and sex. He made it clear that, if elected, he would push abstinence education. "For children to...

THE MISSILE DEFENSE BRIGADE.
September 8, 2001... Not too long ago, defense industry lobbyists thought President Bush had a good shot at winning from Congress the $8.3 billion that he wants for missile defense spending next year, despite a host of political objections and technological...

Another Friend of George Hits Town.(attorney Terral Smith)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... Terral Smith, who spent five years as a legislative assistant to then-Gov. George W. Bush, is opening a Washington outpost for Locke, Liddell & Sapp, a law firm based in Texas that boasts strong ties to the current White House. Smith says he...

Democrats Boast Star Power.(political activity of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... A new liberal political action committee, dubbed the Progressive Majority, has hit the fundraising circuit with some true star power: actors Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, who are husband and wife. Modeled after EMILY's List, the PAC that's...

Gore's Guys Get Together.(Al Gore election firms' merger)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... Two high-profile Democratic media shops--Shrum, Devine & Donilon and the Glover Park Group--are joining forces. Although the two firms haven't formally merged, Tad Devine says that he and his partners, Bob Shrum and Michael Donilon are going to...

A Clashing of Steel Swords.
September 8, 2001... Not every American steel company is playing along with Stand Up for Steel, the coalition of steelmakers and labor unions that helped persuade the Bush Administration to take a tough line against steel imports earlier this year. Some U.S....

NCAA Has Openings on Its Team.(resignation of lobbyists for National Collegiate Athletic Association)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... The National Collegiate Athletic Association has lost its top two Washington lobbyists since May. The Las Vegas/Review-Journal reported that the group's Washington team and the folks at the Indianapolis headquarters disagreed over lobbying...

BAN THE BOMB? HECK NO, IT'S TOO USEFUL.(Interview)
September 8, 2001... To his critics, C. Paul Robinson is Dr. Strangelove incarnate, a Cold Warrior who after nearly four decades working in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex learned to love the bomb. While even hard-liners in the Bush Administration are today...

TURNING THE HEARTS OF DEADBEAT DADS.(Institute for Responsible Fatherhood and Family Revitalization)
September 8, 2001... Unconventional is a term often used to describe the Institute for Responsible Fatherhood and Family Revitalization, a spiritually based charity program that has been--in the vernacular of faith groups--"turning hearts" for nearly 20 years. It...

AN INTERESTING DISINTEREST IN CLONING.(National Academy of Sciences advisory panel members)
September 8, 2001... In times past, the public image of a scientist was that of a lone genius, working tirelessly in his laboratory to unlock nature's secrets for the common good. But a vastly larger enterprise subsumes the modern scientist. Today, each scientist's...

Breaking the Deadlock.(Review)
September 8, 2001... Breaking the Deadlock By Richard A. Posner Princeton University Press 266 pages $24.95 The Supreme Court's ruling that stopped the Florida recount and preserved George W. Bush's narrow victory in Election 2000 has needed a solid...

Supreme Injustice.(Review)
September 8, 2001... Supreme Injustice By Alan M. Dershowitz Oxford University Press 275 pages $25.00 The Supreme Court's ruling that stopped the Florida recount and preserved George W. Bush's narrow victory in Election 2000 has needed a solid...

THE BUST THAT BORES.(media coverage of economy)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... ON THE MEDIA The tech boom is busted, the economy teeters, and the public watches in horror as untold billions in stock market wealth evaporate. The President's political future is threatened, likewise the solvency of the federal budget....

THE ECONOMIC BLAME GAME.
September 8, 2001... Just before Labor Day, Republican National Committee Chairman James S. Gilmore III unveiled an advertising campaign designed to counter Democratic criticism of President Bush's stewardship of the economy. Not surprisingly, Gilmore also went to...

Janet's Gambit.(Janet Reno's exploratory campaign for Florida governorship)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... Her toes are in the water, and her hat is in the ring. Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno took the first step toward launching a Democratic campaign for governor of Florida, filing papers to form an exploratory committee. (Associated...

Al in a Day's Work.(Al Gore)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... At least we know he's not running for mayor of Minneapolis. Former Vice President Al Gore "returned to the campaign trail," but told fellow Democrats "he was not trying to win any votes for himself." Core, stumping in Minneapolis for Mayor...

Statue of Limitations.(bust of former Vice President Dan Quayle)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... The Chicago Tribune's Ellen Warren and Terry Armour report that former Vice President Dan Quayle still can't get any respect." Quayle has been a 'private citizen" for nine years, but there's "no bust" of him "on display in the U.S. Capitol."...

Bailey's Quarters.(Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announces adoption of infant)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... So that explains that diaper bag in the Senate cloakroom. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, announced that she and her husband, Ray, "have adopted an infant, Kathryn Bailey Hutchison." Hutchison, 58, said: "It's just a dream come true for us....

Dear New Hampshire.(Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's political action committee mailing)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... We probably shouldn't read too much into this, but in Nashua, N.H., The Telegraph's Kevin Landrigan reports that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., included New Hampshire Democrats in a recent mailing for her leadership political action...

Come Back, Comeback Kid.(Bill Clinton on lecture circuit)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... Apparently all Rhodes lead back to Oxford. Former President Clinton will lecture at New York University this fall, and he also plans to speak at the London School of Economics, as well as Oxford University. Clinton press secretary Julia Payne...

Not Yet, Yvette.(Juanita Yvette Lozano's giving Republican material to Democrats)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... One last gasp of news coverage before she's relegated to the dustbin of political trivia: Juanita Yvette Lozano was sentenced to a one-year prison term for stealing then-Gov. George W. Bush's "debate material, mailing it to the Gore campaign,...

Quotables.(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... "How Hillaryous can you get?" --Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga., in a letter chiding Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe for attacking potential North Carolina Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole as a "carpetbagger" (Washington Post,...

GOP's FEARS PICK UP, As ECONOMY DOESN'T.(Statistical Data Included)
September 8, 2001... If congressional Republicans seem worried these days, they have reason to be. If this economy were on a heart-rate monitor, the results would be awfully close to a flat line. The budget surplus is history, unless Social Security and Medicare...

The third time's the charm for agriculture lawyer Charlie Rawls, who will be helping to hammer out another farm bill now that he's back on Capitol Hill as general counsel for the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee's majority staff.(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... The third time's the charm for agriculture lawyer Charlie Rawls, who will be helping to hammer out another farm bill now that he's back on Capitol Hill as general counsel for the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee's majority...

Julie Englund, the Brookings Institution's treasurer and vice president for finance and administration, will become Harvard Law School's dean for administration on November 1.(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... Julie Englund, the Brookings Institution s treasurer and vice president for finance and administration, will become Harvard Law School's dean for administration on November 1. Englund helped Brookings significantly strengthen its endowment and...

After just eight hours on the job as CNN's new Washington deputy bureau chief and executive editor, Kathryn Kross sees herself remaining with CNN for a very long time.(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... After just eight hours on the job as CNN's new Washington deputy bureau chief and executive editor, Kathryn Kross sees herself remaining with CNN for a very long time. Kross, 40, knows something about longevity in the news business. She began...

Communications specialist Elizabeth "E.R." Gregory has left the private sector to join the Bush Administration, where she's signed on as the associate undersecretary of communications in the Commerce Department's Economics and Statistics Administration.(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... Communications specialist Elizabeth "E.R." Gregory has left the private sector to join the Bush Administration, where she's signed on as the associate undersecretary of communications in the Commerce Department's Economics and Statistics...

During his 14 years on the Hill, Steve Hall became one of the go-to guys for transportation and infrastructure policy.(now director of government affairs, American Council of Engineering Companies)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... During his 14 years on the Hill, Steve Hall became one of the go-to guys for transportation and infrastructure policy. That experience will come in handy as he gets started at the American Council of Engineering Companies as its director of...

Maurice Kurland grew up in El Paso, Texas, watching the lengthening shadow of free trade on his family's store, Kurland Salzman Music Co.(now lobbyist at Alcalde & Fay)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... Maurice Kurland grew up in El Paso, Texas, watching the lengthening shadow of free trade on his family's store, Kurland Salzman Music Co. As the maquiladora assembly plants grew up along the Texas-Mexico border, the store expanded into a full...

For Richard E. May, things have come full circle: The former Republican staff director for the House Budget Committee remembers the day in early 1995 when he hired Lee Cowen to serve as a committee counsel.(May joins Brownstein Hyatt & Farber)(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... For Richard E. May, things have come full circle: The former Republican staff director for the House Budget Committee remembers the day in early 1995 when he hired Lee Cowen to serve as a committee counsel. Flash forward to the present, and...

SAYING NO TO HMOs.(public opinion)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
September 8, 2001... Half of adults over the age of 50 have unfavorable opinions of health maintenance organizations. A plurality (43 percent) also expressed negative views of the pharmaceutical industry, according to a survey by McLaughlin and elates for the...

WHAT-ME WORRY?(public opinion on jobs)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
September 8, 2001... Despite the signs of a slowing economy, Americans don't seem to be very concerned about job security, an Ipsos-Reid poll finds. Asked what worries them most about their jobs in the coming months, 36 percent (a plurality) cited work hours, 35...

MI CASA ES SU CASA-OR NOT.(U.S. opinion on illegal immigrants)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
September 8, 2001... Americans are divided over proposals that would allow illegal immigrants from Mexico to live and work legally in the United States, according to a survey conducted for ABC News.com. Forty-nine percent opposed the idea, and 43 percent supported...

OTHER VIEWS ON IMMIGRATION.(public opinion poll)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
September 8, 2001... Do YOU APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE OF THE WAY GEORGE W. BUSH IS HANDLING IMMIGRATION? APPROVE 31% DISAPPROVE 30 DON'T KNOW 40 HOW LIKELY DO YOU THINK IT IS THAT IMMIGRANTS WOULD TAKE YOUR JOB IN THE FUTURE? LIKELY ...

PERSONAL CHECK.(consumer confidence, personal financial situation)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
September 8, 2001... In last week's consumer confidence survey conducted by ABC News and Money magazine, 64 percent of those polled rated their personal financial situation as excellent or good. Twenty-five percent said their finances were "not good," and 11...

HANDS OFF.(U.S. role in Mideast peace negotiations)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)
September 8, 2001... As violence between Israelis and Palestinians continues to escalate, half of the Americans surveyed by Opinion Dynamics Corp. for Fox News Channel say that the United States should take a less active role in peace negotiations. Twenty-eight...

WHO SURVIVES A POLITICAL SCANDAL?(Brief Article)
September 8, 2001... The character question hangs over Rep. Gary Condit. But another question hangs over the rest of the nation: When does private behavior appropriately become a public issue? Press coverage is far more personal than it used to be. And...

DIAL 9/11 FOR ABSURDITY AND NOBILITY; HOLD THE PROFUNDITY.
September 15, 2001... The flags were flying at full staff, as if they didn't know yet. The pointed top pierced a bright, oblivious sky. Around noon on the day perversely dated nine-one-one, the Washington Monument was doing absolutely nothing to let on that anything...

THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE: NEXT TIME COULD BE MUCH WORSE.
September 15, 2001... Unimaginable as it may seem, it could be worse the next time. It could be nuclear or biological terror. While we mourn our loved ones, friends, neighbors, and countrymen, we must focus on the fact that these evil people will kill as many of us...

WHAT LEADERS SAID ABOUT THE ATTACK -- AND WHAT THEY MEANT.(Column)
September 15, 2001... In the minutes and hours immediately following the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center towers in New York City and that severely damaged the Pentagon in Washington, many people said many things, some of them revealing. Now,...

America's Challenge.
September 15, 2001... TUESDAY'S TERRORIST ATTACKS WILL TEST PRESIDENT BUSH AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. IS HE UP TO THE TASK? AND ARE WE? As the horror sank in, America's shared national hope was that the United States would meet the challenge, as it had done...