PHILLIPS: POLITICIANS, LOBBYISTS, AND THE GREAT TREASURY RAID 1/28
BMJ: THE DRUG INDUSTRY WANTS ITS PAYBACK FOR CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS 1/28
GUARDIAN: CORPORATE INTERESTS ARE THE POWER BEHIND BUSH 1/28
TP: "MONEY TALKS, PROMISES WALK" 1/28
NYT: SUPER BOWL OFFERS CHANCE TO CATER TO DONORS AND LOBBYISTS 1/28
KRUGMAN: NOW WE'VE GOT GREENSPAN WHORING FOR BUSH . . . 1/28
BW: ANOTHER REASON TO DOUBT THOSE SUPLUS FIGURES 1/28
PFAFF: THE BUSINESS OF BUSINESS IS NOT THE COMMON GOOD 1/28
WITCOVER: NADER'S RIGHT--GORE DID WIN 1/28
WP: ELECTION 2000 PART I: SCRAMBLE FOR THE RECOUNT 1/28
REUTERS: CASTRO HOPES BUSH ISN'T AS DUMB AS HE LOOKS 1/28
NYDN: STREISAND HOPES THE DEMS AREN'T AS GUTLESS AS THEY LOOK 1/28
CORN: SORRY, BABS, THE DEMS ARE AS GUTLESS AS THEY LOOK 1/28
LEWIS: "A CHARACTER ASSASSIN SHOULD NOT BE ATTORNEY GENERAL" 1/28
NYT ED: DEMS NEED TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED ON ASHCROFT 1/28
MORIARTY: IT'S FUN TO PRETEND BUSH IS ORIGINAL, BUT HE ISN'T 1/28
IS: BUSH LIKES TO PRETEND HE'S REAGAN, BUT HE'S NOT 1/28
EHRENREICH: TELL TV THAT JUSTICE TAKES PRIORITY OVER UNITY 1/28
CHANDLER: THE CASE FOR IMPEACHING THE SUPREME COURT FIVE 1/28
SCALIA: WE WANT A FUEHRER, AND ALL WE GOT WAS THIS LOUSY DEMOCRACY 1/28
WP: FLORIDA "OVERVOTES" OVERWHELMINGLY FAVORED GORE 1/28
DAVIS: BIBLE-THUMPERS IN FUR AND OTHER NOTES FROM THE INAUGURATION 1/28
LYNCH: THE SECOND-LAMEST INAUGURAL ADDRESS IN HISTORY 1/28
SOBEL: BUSH IS CATERING TO THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT'S EVERY WHIM 1/28
NYDN ED: BUSH OUGHT TO BE LISTENING TO LAURA ON ABORTION 1/28
CCT: BUSH MISLED THE PUBLIC ON HIS ABORTION VIEWS 1/28
WP: FDA RULES PUT RU-486 IN JEOPARDY 1/28
OREGONIAN: ARTIC OIL FOR SIX MONTHS, NATURAL DESTRUCTION FOREVER 1/28
SJMN: THE "WESTERN MENTALITY" OR JUST THE "BUSH MENTALITY"? 1/28
OJ: BUSH'S "INEVITABILITY STRATEGY" IS PAYING OFF 1/28
AP: KANSAS HONORS THE WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST (ANYONE HAVE A BUCKET?) 1/28
LETTERMAN: TOP TEN LESSONS OF ELECTION 2000 1/28
MH: BUSH'S AMAZON BOOK WISH LIST 1/28
Poem for an Election Year: The Politics of Bindweed
I have lived all season among the bindweed.
I have spied on their silent Anschluss,
the bugles of their flowers, the dark guy wires
they put down into earth from which to fling
slim vines that burgeon into airy traps.
At eye level I have seen them strangle aster,
milkweed, buttercup; I have taken note of
their seemingly random entanglement by tendril
of the whole drowsy meadow. My own ankles
have been tugged and held fast by these fanatics.
These barbarian cousins of morning glory
mean to smother the clover, drive out the livestock,
send scouts to infiltrate the next hayfield,
exploit the ties of family and class
until they rule from hedgerow to hedgerow.
Wherefore all season on my hands and knees
I have ripped out roots, stems, ringlets and blossoms.
I have pursued every innocent threadlike structure
to its source, then plucked it. My chosen task is
to reestablish the republic of grasses.
Maxine Kumin, 1/21
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