Hillary Rodham Clinton is a brilliant candidate. It took this reporter one year, three months and two weeks from that first sun-splashed day on the upstate farm of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, where Mrs. Clinton launched her legendary “Listening Tour,” to come to that conclusion, but it crystallized on Saturday, Oct. 21, during her unremarkable Read More
Hillary, we hardly know ye.
“I think people know everything there is to know about me,” the confidence-flushed First Lady laughed on the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 5. Mrs. Clinton was meeting reporters on the sidewalk outside the Love Fellowship Tabernacle in East New York, the fifth of seven African-American churches where she was slated Read More
Hillary, we hardly know ye. “I think people know everything there is to know about me,” the confidence-flushed First Lady laughed on the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 5. Mrs. Clinton was meeting reporters on the sidewalk outside the Love Fellowship Tabernacle in East New York, the fifth of seven African-American churches where she was slated Read More
I am three months away from giving birth for the first time, and already I am a bad, bad mother. This is partly because I spend almost as much time gazing in shop windows at the thin clothes I’m going to wear one glorious postpartum day, as I do mooning over the gorgeous little alien Read More
I am three months away from giving birth for the first time, and already I am a bad, bad mother.
This is partly because I spend almost as much time gazing in shop windows at the thin clothes I’m going to wear one glorious postpartum day, as I do mooning over the gorgeous little Read MoreDon't get me wrong. If I were Hillary Clinton, I'd run for President, too. I'd figure:
Everything real about the 2008 race is, as Donald Rumsfeld would say, unknowable at this point-but hey, my knowables are at least as good as anybody's. I could raise a fortune, exactly $0 of which I'd have to spend on Read MoreDemocrats of Manhattan, rise and shine! It's been over a week now. The American people have spoken, and what they said was: They don't want you. The vote is in, the map is more red than blue, that smirking jerk you love to hate is back for four more years. So now what?
Clearly, your most Read MoreLess than 60 seconds into his first two-minute answer at last Thursday night’s Presidential debate, the Democratic candidate made the single most important statement about Iraq in this campaign, and he made it with the clarity and brevity that so often eludes him.
"We’re now 90 percent of the casualties in Iraq," said Senator John Kerry Read MoreBAGHDAD-"I am a soldier in the Mehdi Army," said Adnan Al-Safey, a round-faced, soft-spoken fellow of 40 who looked much less like a soldier than a merchant or a poet, which he also happened to be.
It was early June, and Mr. Al-Safey was early for an appointment at the headquarters of the radical Shiacleric Moqtada Read MoreBAGHDAD–The office was not hidden, but it was hard to find. It was across from the gold-domed shrine of Kadhim mosque in Kadhimiya, past the street vendors selling candy bars and Pepsi and blow-up toys and pistol-shaped lighters. Then a right-hand slice into the slow sea of pedestrians, and past several jewelry-store windows hung heavy Read More
BAGHDAD-"This is not a place for the military," Hadel Adnan, 43, said, her copper eyes suddenly freezing, hard and solid. "This is not a place for the resistance. No American convoys patrol."
Soon Hadel's eyes will melt again, and freeze again, and keep on doing so all through a long conversation, like a pair of trick Read MoreBAGHDAD-Nobody in Iraq gives a tinker's damn whether or not the U.S. Secretary of Defense gets fired.
That is, nobody that I've come across in the attempt to gauge the depth and diameter of the crater that has been blown into the Iraqi mind by those images out of Abu Ghraib. So far, this attempt could Read MoreBAGHDAD-Even if you are a deaf person and an optimist, it would be hard not to hear the sound of the wheels coming off.
On Wednesday, March 31, four American contractors escorting a food-distribution convoy through the city of Falluja were killed by Iraqi insurgents, and crowds cheered as their charred bodies were mutilated, dismembered and, Read MoreBAGHDAD-Compared to Baghdad's in-front-of-a-hotel bombing on Wednesday, March 17, Basra's in-front-of-a-hotel bombing on Thursday, March 18-three Iraqi civilians killed, minimal damage-was no big news.
At the time, however, it was not without interest. "They stabbed him with knives; they stepped on him," recounted Fouad Hassan, 19. It was about 20 minutes after a bomb-bearing Mercedes Read MoreBAGHDAD-If you didn't know the devil himself had been put behind bars, you never would have guessed.
It was the night of Dec. 14, barely six hours after U.S. administrator Paul Bremer fired the six words heard 'round˜the world: "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him." The jig was up, the news was out, the DNA Read More
