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8 Mile’s Lie
EVERY GENERATION has its 8 Mile, the widely acclaimed new movie by rap star Eminem. Mine was Purple…
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Neo-liberals on the run
One of the reasons the anti -WTO demonstrations in Seattle last fall came as such a shock to…
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Mind control
During the slowly unwinding prosecutorial wake of Fat Tuesday, Seattle police in late March asked prosecutors to consider…
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The woman who went up a hill and came down a butterfly
The Butterfly has landed. Julia “Butterfly” Hill, 25, became an instant media celebrity last month when an agreement…
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Bombs away
So “Boeing” is “leaving” Seattle. Good. Amid all the mawkishness about the loss of part of Seattle’s soul,…
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Great Communicator, My Ass
Excuse me while I barf. I’m in no mood to join the joyful eulogies upon the passing of…
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The mayor’s (disg)race
THE RACE FOR SEATTLE’S most powerful elected job is already excruciating. Three moderate men of the establishment—Greg Nickels,…
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Watching the reporters
I’m glad I’m a columnist. In Impolitics, I don’t have to pretend. One of the great myths of…
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Please Bomb Seattle
DEAR PRESIDENT BUSH, I write as a proud American and a resident of one of its many great…
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Calling for a Crackdown
The city is considering a new system for watch-dogging the police. It could be a national model, but…
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Torturing small animals
I’ve always been a little bit ambivalent about the animal rights movement. On the one hand, I view…
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Dim bulbs in the White House
IT’S NOT JUST THOSE wacky tree-huggers and Dubya-haters who are howling that the Bush/Cheney energy “plan” is, in…
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The big picture
LAST WEEK, our evening news focused on the drama—or lack of it— as congressional Republicans guided George W.…
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Cynicism Skips School
IT WAS A MOMENTARY story on the evening news, a photo in the paper, and then gone: last…
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Inside Radio
This past weekend, two groups of people who care very much about radio assembled in Seattle, separated only…
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Y1.999K
IN 1998, WITH Clinton’s sex scandal, the award for most overrated story can safely be retired for posterity.…
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The Future of the U District
Philip Thiel stands in the hall, alone, shaking his head. “They’re arranging deck chairs on the Titanic!” he…