Blind Side
CLEVELAND, OHIO READ MORE >>
False Dawn
Three years and three days after their husbands were killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks, five women came to the National Press Club to make an announcement. The widows--Kristen Breitweiser, Patty Casazza, Monica Gabrielle, Mindy Kleinberg, and Lorie Van Auken--were no strangers to Washington news conferences. They had relentlessly lobbied Congress and the White House for a commission to investigate the terrorist attacks, and, once that commission was created, they hounded its members, making certain READ MORE >>
At the Helm
Wilson, North Carolina READ MORE >>
Only in America
New York, New York READ MORE >>
Sign Language
New York, New York READ MORE >>
Lost Cause
Florence, South Carolina—On a Saturday afternoon not long ago, Walt Hilderman was standing in a soggy horse pasture here—a .75-caliber musket in one hand, a Confederate flag in the other. He was participating in a reenactment of an 1865 Civil War battle called the Skirmish at Gamble's Hotel. A retired police captain with bowed legs and a drooping silver moustache, Hilderman wore the rebel-gray uniform well. In fact, if you forgot he had been swigging from a bottle of Coke shortly before the battle, it wasn't hard to picture Hilderman fighting some 140 years earlier. READ MORE >>
Lost Cause
Florence, South Carolina- On a Saturday afternoon not long ago, Walt Hilderman was standing in a soggy horse pasture here—a .75-caliber musket in one hand, a Confederate flag in the other. He was participating in a reenactment of an 1865 Civil War battle called the Skirmish at Gamble's Hotel. A retired police captain with bowed legs and a drooping silver moustache, Hilderman wore the rebel-gray uniform well. In fact, if you forgot he had been swigging from a bottle of Coke shortly before the battle, it wasn't hard to picture Hilderman fighting some 140 years earlier. READ MORE >>
Crashing the Party
It's not often that a U.S. political campaign is launched on foreign soil. Then again, it's not often that a U.S. political campaign revolves around a major motion picture. So, when Michael Moore went to France in late May for the world premiere of his movie Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Cannes Film Festival, he treated the occasion like a political convention. READ MORE >>
Monopoly
There once was a time, not long after I gave up my dreams of being a firefighter, but well before I settled on a career as a writer, when I wanted to be a trustbuster. I was in sixth grade, if I recall correctly, and my class was studying Teddy Roosevelt. That meant readings on the Rough Riders and lectures on the National Park system. But, while most of my classmates lapped up Roosevelt's physical exploits, I was drawn to one of the comparably drier facets of TR's career: his administration's efforts to break up READ MORE >>
