The last thing I had heard about the lawyer Michael Rips, he was going back to Omaha to run for Congress. That seemed improbable. Mr. Rips has the politician’s ability to make you feel like the center of the universe, but he was too sophisticated to want to hang out with farmers. He lived in Read More
Amid the great swirl of political activity that has managed, however briefly, to relegate news of celebrity couplings to the off-lead column, one question remains unasked: On what planet do our political leaders reside? They cannot be residents of our good earth, for their actions and words contain none of the characteristics we associate with Read More
A man was arrested at Newark Airport earlier this summer for breaking the neck of a Continental Airlines gate agent. The newspaper accounts did not say if other Continental Airlines customers cheered. If they didn’t scream, “Right on, brother!” out loud, you may be sure many of them were silently applauding the mayhem being inflicted Read More
After a horrific couple of weeks of incarceration, a friend of mine recently escaped from one of Manhattan’s largest, best known and respected hospitals.
He had successfully undergone a long and complicated operation, but immediately afterward my friend was left in a recovery room for six hours, attended to by people who did not Read More
