"People say to me, ‘You are not the Vietnamese. You have no jungles and swamps,’ " Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is quoted as telling a University of Warwick researcher six months ago. "I reply, ‘Let our cities be…
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We Must Not Do This Alone The San Francisco Chronicle
As Congress debates granting President Bush the power to wage war against Iraq, many in the Bay Area have expressed confusion and concern at what they perceive as a lack of adequate public discussion on the subject. Over the next…
The Medium is the Mess: What to Do About Broadcast News? The San Francisco Chronicle
As the welcome but brief surge of intelligent news coverage precipitated by Sept. 11 fades, the war in Afghanistan winds down and the near- death experience of "Nightline" becomes just another dispiriting spasm of TV history, a momentary but deceptive…
Why Won’t Beijing Make Peace with the Dalai Lama? The San Francisco Chronicle
Dear Comrades: It may strike you as presumptuous for an uninvited outsider to address the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo. Through long experience in China, I am well aware of the sensitive reaction…