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(03/27/00 5:00am)
During my first 18 years growing up, I heard a lot about newspaper writing from my parents. Just as I have argued on the pages of this newspaper, my father fought his political battles in college on the editorial pages of William & Mary's Flat Hat. He fought communism and segregation in his columns -- topics that make issues like student self-governance and fraternity rush seem insignificant.
(03/06/00 5:00am)
AS A NAVY pilot in Vietnam Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) plane was shot down. He landed in a lake in Hanoi, badly injured, with both arms and one leg broken. Some North Vietnamese, eager for retribution for the American bombing, swum out to meet him. They beat the already badly injured pilot, broke his shoulder and bayoneted him repeatedly while parading him through the streets. He was then taken to the infamous Hanoi Hilton by North Vietnamese soldiers who gave him up for dead because of his injuries. Miraculously his fellow prisoners of war managed to nurse him back to health.
(02/28/00 5:00am)
AS A RESULT of his offensive comments in a December interview with Sports Illustrated, relief pitcher John Rocker has been suspended from baseball, put on the trading block by his team - the Atlanta Braves - and has become a pariah in sports and society in general. There is no need to quote Rocker's statements again, which have received extensive press coverage. Nor does this column need to print a disclaimer about how his comments were inappropriate - obviously this is the case. There are more important issues here.
(02/21/00 5:00am)
COLUMBIA, SC - Election day began with bustling activity at the campaign headquarters of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Cars honked incessantly in response to the "Honk for McCain" signs. The frenetic activity, excited volunteers and hopeful organizers revealed just how much this campaign has changed over the last three weeks.
(02/02/00 5:00am)
CONCORD, N.H.-The primary structure, with so much weight on New Hampshire, is an odd system for electing presidential candidates for a nation of this size. This state with a little over one million people could be the most important battleground in this presidential race. In the past it has sunk would-be candidates like the elder George Bush and Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) in 1980, while it vaulted Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Ronald Reagan in 1980 to success. No Republican has lost in New Hampshire and gone on to the Oval Office.
(01/24/00 5:00am)
LAST MONDAY the Commonwealth of Virginia celebrated Lee-Jackson-King Day. The holiday was changed in 1985 -- before then, it was simply Lee-Jackson Day, honoring the two Virginians who were the South's top generals in the Civil War.
(01/24/00 5:00am)
LAST MONDAY the Commonwealth of Virginia celebrated Lee-Jackson-King Day. The holiday was changed in 1985 -- before then, it was simply Lee-Jackson Day, honoring the two Virginians who were the South's top generals in the Civil War.
(12/08/99 5:00am)
IT'S NOT the New Year yet, but the next column I write will be in the year 2000. The year 2000 may be the time of apocalyptic predictions, of suggestions of computer failure or terrorist attacks. There are many predictions that certainly will not come true. But for me, one thing is for sure. The year 2000 will be filled with changes.
(11/15/99 5:00am)
COUNTRY music star Alan Jackson croons in his song "Little Man" about the decline of small business in the face of national chains. "I go back now the stores are empty / boarded up like they never existed / there goes the little man." Jackson continues: "Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip / Save a penny because it's jumbo size / They don't even realize / They're killing the little man."
(11/08/99 5:00am)
LAST WEEK the Republicans captured both houses of Virginia's General Assembly. This victory gives the party a historic opportunity to further its agenda. But there are disturbing signs that the major Republican agenda was just Republican victory, and that in victory, the party will be complacent, rather than advocating issues that will prepare the Commonwealth for the 21st century during the coming term.
(11/01/99 5:00am)
AS WORLD War II was spreading in the beginning of 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt gave his famous speech in which he outlined four essential human freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. It may seem hard for our generation to conceive of what these freedoms really mean because they are not something we ever have had to search for or fight for. They simply always have been there for most of us.
(10/25/99 4:00am)
LAST WEEK Elizabeth Dole dropped out of the presidential race. She decided that she was unable
(10/11/99 4:00am)
EVERYONE knows who Christopher Columbus is and why we honor him. He is celebrated for "discovering" the New World. But Columbus was about 500 years too late to get credit for this feat.
(10/04/99 4:00am)
In the 1950s, the buzzword was Communism. If a person was labeled a Communist, he could be personally or professionally ruined. Senator Joseph McCarthy recognized this and used it to his political advantage. When he had an enemy, instead of attacking his politics, he called him a Communist -- a stigma that often was difficult to escape.
(09/27/99 4:00am)
REPUBLICANS and Democrats often are criticized for failing to represent all segments of society. People with ideologies on the right, such as political commentator Pat Buchanan and Sen. Bob Smith (I-N.H.), feel squeezed out by the increasingly centrist party. Meanwhile, people on the left feel that there is no room for them in the ever-more moderate Democratic Party.
(09/20/99 4:00am)
REMOVING excess spending from the budget is good. Cutting taxes in a strong economy is also good. But when such measures are taken, we must be certain that the spending is indeed "excess," and that the economy indeed is in such good condition that the budget can sustain tax cuts without damaging programs.
(09/13/99 4:00am)
EVERYONE needs a hero. Everyone wants someone to honor. Some members of the Fifeville Neighborhood Association have decided that for them, that person is Sally Hemings, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves. She has been in the headlines recently because of a study suggesting that she was Jefferson's mistress, and that Jefferson fathered at least one of her children.
(09/06/99 4:00am)
I HAVE lived in the Venable neighborhood for three years and I've always thought it was a safe place.
(07/19/99 4:00am)
IT'S HOT. I'm in the middle of a Washington summer heat wave. I'm wearing a suit, and I have a 45-minute commute ahead of me on the Metro. It's hot and I'm tired because I got up at 7 a.m. this morning for my nine-to-five day.