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Karenna Gore Schiff Some people??live the lives they've been given, and some--in the words of Southern belle turned civil-rights activist Virginia Durr--"step outside the magic circle" of the world they were born into and make it better. It's the latter group that interests Schiff (who is Al Gore's daughter). She vividly profiles nine women, some well known, like labor firebrand Mother Jones, some less so, like Alice Hamilton, one of the first doctors to fight for industrial safety, who asked, "Is it sensible to assume that what is American is necessarily wisest...
...PICK ON FAMOUS PEOPLE???ALAN GREENSPAN IN THIS BOOK, NEIL DIAMOND IN THE PAST. I've had surprisingly nice reactions. I wrote a column making fun of Neil Diamond's lyrics "'I am,' I said/To no one there/ And no one heard at all/Not even the chair." I said it was one of the worst lyrics ever written. The column became The Book of Bad Songs, which I dedicated to him. A few years ago, he was playing South Florida and invited me to his concert. Which I didn't go to because a) I couldn...
...It was understanding that people??had conflicting thoughts about Schiavo and hesitated to take sides. I relate to those who wanted Schiavo to live because of her family's grief and the belief that she might be helped by advances in medical science. Harder to comprehend was the passion of some who were eager for her death. Without a living will as proof of Schiavo's desires and in light of her parents' willingness to take full responsibility for her, should the life-or-death decision have been left to a husband who had moved on and started...
It is very sad that people??in this day and age of scientific discovery still cling to old superstitions. If we would accept that this is the only life we have and stop yearning for a nonexistent afterlife, maybe humanity would make the world of today a better place.WILLIAM MCWHINNEY Coral Springs...
...People??can't even agree who won the state last time; Democrats have already filed nine lawsuits this year challenging election rules. Kerry needs a big turnout in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach. Bush needs big numbers in the Panhandle and the southern Gulf Coast. Both sides want to win the area stretching from Tampa to Orlando to Daytona Beach--the fastest-growing area in the state...