Mar 12, 2005

“Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s 8 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, and Rich Edwards, a wine steward at L’Auberge de Sedona restaurant in Arizona, kisses his son Devon goodbye. He won’t return home until long past 10 p.m., when Devon is fast asleep. A brief embrace is all they will share together this holiday.

No compromise on Social Security / Bolton unfit for the UN

OPINION

Bush means freedom for corporations to own the world’s natural resources, the labor market, public space and socially produced wealth. He is talking about the ruling class’s freedom to exploit and wage war.

Does Wal-Mart speak for women? Wal-Mart has been hitting the airways with regular television commercials. A lot of them, maybe even most of them, depict happy women. Happy women shoppers and happy women workers.

OPINION

In Shakespeare’s monumental tragedy, King Lear, a series of appalling crimes are committed in a context of betrayal, torture, war and invasion.

Should parents have the right to choose to protect a child from being targeted by military recruiters in school? Is it an inherent part of public school education to be pressured to sign an irrevocable contract and join the U.S. armed forces?

NEW YORK — Several months ago, when I was appearing in “Women on the Verge of HRT” at the Irish Arts Center, Marie Jones (author of “Stones in his Pockets” and “Women on the Verge”) went into a bookstore and asked where was the section that included work by Irish women. The clerk paused for a moment and then said, “Madam, there are no Irish women playwrights!”

BOOK REVIEW

Divided We Fall
By Peter Kellman
Apex Press, 2004
Softcover, 194 pp., $29.95

Doris Margaret Glenn born July 5, 1920, was called home to God on Feb. 27, after a 10 year battle with MS.