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Salon.com | March 13, 2000 [Pink Pistols, a grass roots movement founded after this article was published, now has (according to its website) 47 Chapters in 30 States and two countries.] ONE NIGHT in the autumn of 1987, in Little Rock, Ark., a boy named Austin Fulk smelled his own death. He was 17, too young to…
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REASON | February 2000 [Review of Michael Warner’s The Trouble with Normal] LATELY I have begun to understand how a Methodist must feel when everyone he meets calls him a Lutheran. People often describe me as a libertarian. All right, it’s true that I often write in a skeptical vein about government. Yes, I have come…
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Los Angeles Times Book Review | October 31, 1999 TO BE A HOMOSEXUAL in 1999 is to stand on the curb during the New York gay pride parade and feel your eyes water, faster than you can stop them, as row after row of openly homosexual police officers march by, in full uniform. Behind them, supporting…
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National Journal | September 4, 1999 NOT long after the end of the Second World War, a young man named Shiu-kee gathered up a few things and set out to walk from a small village in the Guangdong province of southeastern China. The young man possessed almost nothing in the world, and he hoped to…
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Reason, January 1999 Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays, by Susan Haack, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 212 pages, $22.50 WHEN was the last time you heard from a professional philosopher who wanted to intervene in a public argument in order to say something sane? Today in Washington, where I live and work, it…
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The Economist | December 17, 1998[Like most Economist articles, this was published anonymously] HOW, if at all, will the 1990s be remembered? The Internet rose and the Soviet Union fell. Mammals were cloned, Bosnia broke up, and peace came to Ireland, maybe. Something happened in Canada, though no one was sure precisely what. On the whole it…
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National Journal | September 19, 1998 ON FEB. 12, Americans awoke to read in their newspapers that the U.S. government–settler of the West, vanquisher of totalitarianism, conqueror of the moon–now writes the rules of golf. Casey Martin is a professional golfer who suffers from Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome, a congenital circulatory disorder that gives him pain and…
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Slate.com | Aug. 14, 1998 FIRST, to prevent any misunderstanding, the warning: Alcohol, when abused, is vicious, dangerous stuff. Each year about 100,000 Americans die alcohol-related deaths. No one should drink and drive or drink to excess. Some people–teen-agers, people on contraindicated medications, pregnant women, and those who have trouble controlling their consumption–should avoid alcohol,…
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National Journal | May 30, 1998 JACKSONVILLE, FLA.—The corner of Sixth and Davis Streets is a kind of cemetery without graves. Nothing remains here but vacant lots and wild grass that ripples in Florida’s gray spring wind. You have to use your imagination to see this place as it was in 1981, when there were…
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National Journal | March 14, 1998 ON FEB. 11, Attorney General Janet Reno called for an independent prosecutor to find out whether Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt lied to Congress last year when he testified about a controversial Indian casino deal. For Babbitt and some other Administration insiders, the most important aspect of the case is…