What does Katrina, and its aftermath, look like from South Africa?
Horror travels surprisingly well, it seems. People here are stunned by it, of course, as they are everywhere, and far too many South Africans remain, even today, conversant with despair; though this tongue, they would have thought, is but rarely spoken in America. (When […]
It’s not just peach pie, it’s Impeachment Pie, the dessert that’s become famous at Chocolate, a restaurant in downtown Santa Cruz.
“People come here just for that,” says Zeya Schindler, a veteran waiter at the restaurant. “I’m not always sure if it’s because the pie is very good, or because they want to impeach Mr. Bush.”
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As the battle over nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court approaches, a solution to the nation’s battle over church and state seems about as likely as a Sonny and Cher reunion. Noah Feldman, noting that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the swing vote in several Court decisions protecting what he terms “legal secularism,” suggests an […]