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...planet and its rate of decline, but conservationist Jane Goodall, in her piece "The Power of One," balanced her concerns with optimism and the idea that we can each make a difference. In my little way (biking to work, recycling more, consuming less), I will try. JEAN COCKBURN Issaquah, Wash...
...greatest physical trauma in the life of the White House was its burning in 1814 by the British troops who marched nonchalantly down Pennsylvania Avenue; ate the meal prepared for James Madison, who had fled to Virginia; watched their commander, Rear Admiral George Cockburn, brandish Dolley Madison's chair cushion, declaring it would help him remember Dolley's "seat." The British sailors then torched the place...
...Those prone to smelling rodents in the Clinton White House, such as The Nation's left-wing columnist Alexander Cockburn, point out that the presale assessment of the Elk Hills land was done not by the Department of Energy, as would usually be the case, but by a private firm, ICF Kaiser. And then, with a note of "gotcha," Cockburn throws in the fact that ICF Kaiser's chairman is former Gore campaign manager Tony Coelho...
...still imperious British came back to America and captured Washington in 1814, burning the Capitol and the White House before leisurely returning to their ships in Annapolis. The worst insult may have come from British Rear Admiral George Cockburn, one of the commanders of the 150 seamen who skillfully torched the city, as the Federal Government's bureaucrats, including President James Madison and his Cabinet, ran like rabbits for the open country in Maryland and Virginia. Before ordering his men to set the building on fire, Admiral Cockburn told them to choose souvenirs from among the trivial things...
...NAME SPEAKERS INCLUDE... Alex Cockburn, Jim Hightower, Christopher Hitchens, Molly Ivins, George McGovern, Katha Pollitt, Calvin Trillin...