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the human death experience is so mystical. my brother called this morning to tell me that mum had been going downhill noticeably in the las...

"because it's there," said george mallory, explaining why he wanted to climb everest. never a completely satisfying answer fo...

"Anybody here seen my old friend Martin..." God bless you Dr. King

True Crime Stories: Pepe former judge "pepe" rivera comes to my office to review my file on a murder case he's just been retai...

TRUE CRIME STORIES: Lester when i was in organized crime/public corruption i inherited an investigation of the head of one of the rehabilita...

MORE IOWA what is the saying, "it's always darkest before the dawn?" at near dawn today, i got awake and turned on the rad...

IOWA this could hardly be a better result. dean is seriously wounded. tim russert said his out-of-control post-election speech could be ...

TRUE CRIME STORIES: Shit your chances of making an arrest in a new murder case fall off drastically after the first 24 hours. that's why...

the capture of saddam hussein needn't mean it's over for the democrats. it IS over, because howard dean will be the nominee but ima...

COFFIN'S CORNER william sloane coffin, the great divine of the 1960s, was the subject of a little new yorker article this week. the occa...

the attacks by islam on the west, in iraq continuously and ever bolder, in saudi arabia, spectacularly twice in turkey, are harbingers. whe...

FREDDY ADU TO PLAY FOR UNITED D.C. united, that is, not manchester united. quite a coup for major league soccer. the best young player in ...

the philadelphia inquirer reported on wednesday that a secret cia report has warned that the continued guerrila attacks on coalition forces ...

some wag once said of antonio vivaldi that he did not compose 400 pieces of music, he composed one piece of music 400 times, so distinctive ...

anything that presents an obstacle to howard dean getting the democratic nomination for president is ok with me but the confederate flag fla...

TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTY'S OVER today's commerce department figures, 7.2% quarterly economic growth, "the strongest in...

OFTEN WRONG, ALWAYS CERTAIN the university of southern california, whose nickname is the "trojans," plays washington state univ...

GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS the best overall indicator of the vulnerability of an incumbent president has always been the "right track, wrong t...

big political news today. gen. wesley clark and sen. joseph lieberman have decided to pull out of--bypass is their word--the iowa caucuses....

"SOME LOOK AT THE WORLD AND ASK 'WHY?' OTHERS LOOK AT THE WORLD AND ASK 'WHY NOT?' " there's probably some ml...

REINCARNACION, CONT "by forty a desreputable series of matrimonial scandals had been varied, and sometimes advertised, by a succession ...

TRUE CRIME STORIES: Bailey/Haversham robert johnson sat at his desk reading a box file. he had gone through all of the meat of the case, the...

REINCARNACION "mirabeau [french revolutionary leader] was the life-long victim of two passions. he could not see a pretty woman withou...

money-making opportunities abound today in college tackle football, perhaps not for followers of the advice offered here, but in general. ...

CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN' what a disgrace this recall is. let's take one of the most plausible scenarios. you really want davis rec...

OFTEN WRONG, ALWAYS CERTAIN MEMO: TO: GENERAL WESLEY CLARK FROM: BENJAMIN HARRIS RE: ECONOMICS obviously, domestic issues are those on which...

LOST IN TRANSLATION penguin books are great. inexpensive editions of the classics available at book sellers everywhere (not at books & b...

no oceans of white hands in the photograph on the front pa...

richard clarke, former bush II nsc advisor said on mcneil/lehrer tonight that we are running on a treadmill in the war on terror because ...

the cover of this week's NEW YORKER, the sept. 11 anniversary issue, is a skyline of the city with each of its buildings twinned. insid...