In A.D. 193, the Roman Praetorian Guard murdered the Emperor Pertinax, and
proceeded to auction off the imperial throne to the highest bidder. Until
this year, the most strenuous emulation of this feat by the U.S. military
came in 1980,...
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22 August 2000
To prepare myself spiritually for what I'm willing to wager will be the New
Age of Prudery (as manifested lately in the Gore/Lieberman attack on
Hollywood's debasement of the higher values), I drove to the Getty Center,
in west Los Angeles...
16 August 2000
A chasm has always separated Gore's professions from his performance. He
denounces the rape of nature, yet has connived at the strip mining of
Appalachia, and, indeed, of terrain abutting one of Tennessee's most popular
state parks. He put...
11 August 2000
What’s behind the assault against affirmative action, race-based scholarships, educational loans and other programs designed to enhance opportunities and access for blacks, Latinos and other minorities in higher education? What’s at stake...
11 August 2000
FREEP HEROES
The Striking CWA Workers and their Student Allies
The clash between the increasingly corporatized and Republican-dominated OSU administration and the underpaid Communication Workers of America OSU...
11 August 2000
This letter was sent by death row inmate Johnny Byrd on Easter to Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church as a desperate plea to help save his life.
Seventeen and a half years ago I awoke to a horrible nightmare. At the young...
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