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Saturday, May 25, 2002

money honeys

"The average net worth of the individual members of the Bush cabinet, including the President and Vice President, was between $9.3 and $27.3 million. That�s nearly ten times the average net worth of the cabinet officials who were their immediate predecessors, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of executive branch personal financial disclosure forms."

tabula rasa

"BERLIN (Reuters) - An irreverent left-leaning German newspaper published a blank front page on Friday under the headline "Bush's historic speech" to mock the U.S. president's address in the Reichstag on Thursday."

Friday, May 24, 2002

the next time you see me coming youd better run

booknotes cruises down highway 61 on bobby zimmerman's 61st birthday.

play misty for me

"WASHINGTON, May 23 � The Defense Department sprayed live nerve and biological agents on ships and sailors in cold war-era experiments to test the Navy's vulnerability to toxic warfare, the Pentagon revealed today."

Thursday, May 23, 2002

newspinoff

"pbs introduces frontline/world: stories from a small planet"

duty calls

"For every college counselor at Roosevelt High, there are five military recruiters. "The recruiters prey on students who feel they have no other options: immigrant students trying to get citizenship, seniors lacking credits to graduate, and anyone who they can persuade that the army will train them for the real world," said Lester Garc�a, a Roosevelt graduate and youth organizer. Promises of money for college or citizenship are thrown out like candy."

no cheesehead

russ feingold interview from the progressive.

tortured artist syndrome

"Using personality and temperament tests, they found healthy artists to be more similar in personality to individuals with manic depression than to healthy people in the general population. "My hunch is that emotional range, having an emotional broadband, is the bipolar patient�s advantage," said Strong. "It isn�t the only thing going on, but something gives people with manic depression an edge, and I think it�s emotional range."

trade wars

"Most of the victims of the September 11 attack seemed tragically random -- they were just going to work. Not John O'Neill. Until last August, he'd been the FBI's top expert on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, a lead investigator of the USS Cole and African embassy bombings. Leaving the Bureau in frustration, he'd taken a job he thought of as retirement: World Trade Center security chief. But when he died it became clear: His own life contained as many mysteries as his enemy's."

ship of fools

"Normal service has resumed. After eight months off the air, American politics is back. Republicans are once more hurling abuse at Democrats, Democrats are slamming Republicans, while Capitol Hill and the White House have returned to their traditional posture: at loggerheads. At long last, the September 11 bubble of bipartisan consensus - in which even to question the Bush administration's war against terrorism was seen as unpatriotic - has burst."

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