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...cold morning last April, in??the shadow of Montana's Beartooth Mountain range, five agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) walked into the office of Dr. Richard Nelson, a Billings neurologist. For six hours, they combed through his records, seizing 72 patient charts and confiscating his drug-dispensing permit. The charge? None so far, but the assumption is that he is suspected of improperly prescribing narcotic drugs. Despite a distinguished professional record spanning more than four decades, Nelson has had to spend $20,000 on lawyers, fearing that the government will indict him if it turns out that...
Next month, I'll have spent exactly half my life in??Britain and half in America--my first 21 years in Britain and my past 21 Stateside. But last week, I felt strangely as if I have lived in the same country all my life. In peril, the bonds deepen. I haven't forgotten how much I wept when the Queen ordered her guards to play The Star-Spangled Banner after 9/11; and last week, in the wake of London's bombings, New Yorkers were Londoners again. Rudy Giuliani was even on the scene...
...most disturbing statement in??the story is at the end--"in the war on terrorism, the personal dignity of a fanatic trained for mass murder may be an inevitable casualty." Actually, it is the rule of law, and all the values Americans hold dear, that is the casualty of crude illogic like that. Who says al-Qahtani is a terrorist or a fanatic bent on mass murder? He has never been charged with or tried for any crime. He is legally innocent until proved guilty. Anyone who scoffs at that does not take seriously bedrock constitutional principles...
...Scott Fitzgerald told us there are no second acts in??American lives. Fortunately, TV is not life. And ever since Ozzy Osbourne's and Jessica Simpson's comebacks, TV has been doling out second and third acts like Halloween candy. Eccentric Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett, p.r. queen Lizzie Grubman and gossip-beset Britney Spears have done reality shows. Kirstie Alley responded to being the butt--so to speak--of tabloid fat jokes on Showtime's sitcom Fat Actress. This summer scandal magnets Tommy Lee and Bobby Brown remind us who they are on NBC and Bravo, while next fall...
...Klein's column "Hillary in??2008? No Way!" spelled out why it's a bad idea for Senator Clinton to run for President [May 16]. I agree with much of Klein's assessment of Hillary's possible candidacy. What the Senator will find out, should she run, is that all the old questions regarding Whitewater, her plans for revamping health care and her conduct toward her White House staff will come back to hit her with the fury of a tsunami. It will be a massive political and media sideshow...