ILF POST

By Gloria Feldt I’ve never known my friend Dr. Allan Rosenfield, 20-year Dean of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, to be humble. But he seems genuinely astonished by the tributes he has received over the past year since he was diagnosed with Amotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (A.L.S.).
As many [...]

By Charles LindblomFrom the New York Review, I quote:
” We realized that our military might alone cannot, when push comeS to shove, defend us. . . . . How can it be that a people with our powers of creativity and regeneration. . . finds itself today — precisely when it has [...]

By Jane Poynter At a party the other day, I listened agog as a male guest said to our hostess, “Great boobs, babe!” I was thinking him dreadfully forward given the enormous diamond on the woman’s ring finger. Then I remembered – she’d just spent thousands to have them lifted. I was [...]

By Jane Alexander Muhammad Ali is 65 years old this week. It is hard to believe. Back in 1968 we’d been marching for civil rights for years and the black power movement was at its height. Stokely Carmichael’s message that “black was beautiful” was being heard by thousands who let their hair grow out into [...]

By Harlan Cleveland Not long before he died in 1976, Andre Malraux wrote that the 21st century would be the century of religion. If he was guessing that much violence would be justified in the name of organized religions, his forecast has already come true. If he meant that mainstream religions would be attracting more [...]

By Douglass Carmichael Bush’s speech was lacking in energy, with almost no rhetorical body language, yet he probably wins in that the issue is now framed as escalation vs. no escalation – a real shift from get out or stay the course. Bush has bought time and saddled the country with inertia, [...]

By Charles Lindblom Enron executives Lay and Skilling have been convicted. Theirs is a sordid little episode in a great story that goes back at least as far as Sargon in the 24th century B. C., King of Akkad, ruling conquered lands from Mesopotamia to both Mediterranean and Black Sea, history’s first emperor. It is [...]

By Gloria Feldt Change is in the air this week in Washington, D.C. “This is what happens when they ban smoking in those smoke-filled rooms,” observed Congresswoman Rosa De Lauro (D-CT) as she welcomed some 1,000 women to high tea January 3 in honor of the first female speaker of the U.S. [...]

By Ralph Keyes Aside from being a model of sanity and stability in the White House, Gerald Ford will always be remembered for something said about him: “He can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.” Actually that isn’t precisely what Lyndon Johnson said about his successor once removed. According to Washington insiders, [...]