| RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: I miscalculated Big Time. When I agreed to visit my pal Larry up in New Hampshire and ride the train back to New York with him one of my calculation brain cells must have shut down...ROD & LARRY "On The Train"
RDR 05.25.00: ROD AMIS asks what type of man is "Loved by Cats"? RDR 05.24.00: RADIO RAHEEM reports on "The World According to Cool Papa" RDR 05.22.00: ED CANTARELLA finds himself "Lost in the Land of Opportunity" MY GLASS HOUSE: Well, gee, I would say, somebody has to write the stories the Mouthpiece Media give short-shrift, under-report, trivialize, or fail to report. "You'll never make any money."
Well, maybe not. ... ROD AMIS "Dynamite"
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Letters from ChechnyaRENDT GORTERI had never before flown into Slipsovskay airport --- or Magas airport as it is named these days to identify it with Ingushetia's contrived capital of the same name right on the other side of the tiny republic. What makes this airport safer this time round? I muse as we came in for the landing. From 1995 to 1997 I must have flown down from Moscow 20 - 30 times, and every time Vladikavkaz, 50kms away, would be the destination preferred over the then unreliable service to Ingushetia. Perhaps the fact that one end of the runway virtually butts into Chechnya was another consideration.
The faces expecting us at the barbed wire fence are familiar enough. When, back in 1997, I had handed over as the co-ordinator for the English relief agency Medical Emergency Relief International, these and many friends I left behind as part of an aid project that some months after had to withdraw from a setting in which foreigners of all description simply were hunted game. What makes this setting safer this time round?
E-mail to EdenDOUGLAS MC DANIEL"These pygmies are incredibly good at memorizing things," Fay says. "One guy is a botanist. He knows every tree in the forest. He could tell you which animal eats which bark, and they all seem to have encyclopedic memories of everything they have seen on this trip. They remember every bush, every stone." Ah, but would they be able to find the spot in the jungle when Fay commits his research to cyberspace?
"If they can get through the hell hole we came through, they can certainly navigate the Internet," he responds.
The Liberal AllergySTEVE VIVIANThese days, conservatives accuse liberals of indulging in politically correct feelings--or, as William F. Buckley puts the matter, liberals tend to retreat into "pleasant thoughts." The point, of course, is that contemporary liberalism is interested in symbol, not substance.
Unfortunately, those charges are pretty much on the money. Nowhere is the liberal allergy to reality more striking as when liberals stand on the soapbox to denounce various "evils" in society--and offer shallow platitudes as deep thoughts.
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