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Being There 

Being There The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade By Gerard J. DeGroot (HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 508 PAGES,...

The politics of witchcraft and trial by water 

VIRGINIA BEACH

Whether you sink or swim in Virginia Beach has sometimes been a matter of life or death. You could commune with the...

The New Anti-Semitism: Some Intellectuals Deny Outbreak of Hatred.(Book Review) 

Suzanne Fields is a columnist with The Washington Times. THOSE WHO FORGET THE PAST: THE QUESTION OF ANTI-SEMITISM Edited by Ron Rosenbaum...

The high honor of being a homemaker 

When my mother died last month at 92, I pressed the obituary writer for a major metropolitan newspaper to emphasize that she was a homemaker. "But...

Art arises out of the ashes of history 

Art that's controversial gets attention. That's not necessarily bad. It makes us look at or read something we might otherwise have ignored, often...

Ashcroft's coverup scandalizes U.S. capital 

Ideological controversies have plagued John Ashcroft from the day President George W. Bush appointed him U.S. attorney general. But no one disputes...

How men — and women - call the shots 

Do men and women react differently to terrorism? That depends on who you ask. A Manhattan bachelor of my acquaintance and his steady girlfriend,...

Family matters: how readers react to Bill Bennett's Broken Hearth may determine whether the family can be fixed 

The moralmeister is back. When Bill Bennett wrote The Book of Virtues, he revived the best of the moral tales from antiquity to the present for the...

New Yorkers, Washingtonians give regards to Broadway, Pennsylvania Avenue 

The Acela is the new fast train from Washington to New York City, leaving from Washington's Union Station at midday and arriving at Penn Station in...

Memories of the `Boy Wonder' 

I was a baseball groupie before I was 10. Daddy was a sports promoter at the time and knew that world. Athletes were okay to have as my heroes as...