NAMES.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 20-SEP-04

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Eighteen months ago, several hundred people gathered outside Senator Charles Schumer's apartment building on Prospect Park West, in Brooklyn. They were there to protest, with a candlelight vigil, the approaching invasion of Iraq, which Schumer had voted to authorize. Jessica Epstein, a spirited young protester, was, like most of the people there, stooped awkwardly over her candle, trying to keep it lit. She said, with some agitation, "My roommate said, 'Why are you bothering Schumer at his home?' But this goes so far beyond bothering someone at his home. This is a war that's going to kill thousands...

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