Re: The two Americas

2000-03-04 Thread Charles Brown
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/03/00 10:53AM "This young boy appears not to have many advantages in life," said Arthur A. Busch, the Genesee County prosecutor, who said the boy probably would not be charged and was released today to an aunt. this mollycoddling goes against the Spirit of

Re: The two Americas

2000-03-03 Thread Jim Devine
"This young boy appears not to have many advantages in life," said Arthur A. Busch, the Genesee County prosecutor, who said the boy probably would not be charged and was released today to an aunt. this mollycoddling goes against the Spirit of America of these days! If we are to be Tough on

Re: The two Americas

2000-03-03 Thread Timework Web
These two Americas only exist "anecdotally" (that is to say in narratives of lived experience). Statistically, things have never been better. Unemployment is at a 30 year low and inflation is under control. One doesn't have to fudge the numbers. All one has to do is fudge the conditions of life

Re: The two Americas II

2000-03-03 Thread Timework Web
from Dispatches by Michael Herr: Page 2, "At the end of my first week in country I met an information officer in the headquarters of the 25th Division at Cu Chi who showed me on his map and then from his chopper what they'd done to the Ho Bo Woods, the vanished Ho Bo Woods taken off by giant