As Chinese youth besiege the Japanese embassy in Beijing, venting their rage at the prospect that Japan might be admitted to the UN Security Council I can only wonder what…
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I was listening to one of George Bush’s little tetes-a-tete with the red state citizenry the other day. He is taking his hyped-up case for revamping Social Security “to the people”…
Sweet tomatoes and melons grown by computers was fascinating stuff. But I had finished my interviews and, being a city boy, was ready to forsake the rural for the…
Israel, April 1990. “Joe Angel,” he said when I asked him a second time to pronounce his name in Hebrew for me. He saw my look of disbelief…
Anyone who has been reading this journal knows that I do not count myself among he credulous of any creed. I’ll take my chances with my own “faith”; the…
After I had made several trips to China in different capacities an Asian friend commented that I was getting to be a “China hand.” There was more flattery that…
Back in 1968, when I and my family flew out to San Diego to begin my job as an assistant professor at SDSU, we were accompanied by a contingent of…
I feel a twinge of guilt using Terri Shiavo as my lead in this piece. The poor woman has been exploited by the Republicans, the anti-abortionists, lawyers, clerics, and…
Like a “cold case file” the story of that New Testament rat-fink, Judas Iscariot, has always had a bit of a smell to it. I alluded to the “necessity”…
Americans Abroad No. 6 [Three more archetypical American tourists, not meant to expose any actual people who have been on my tours . . . really .] Every tour group has at least…