BY GARY EDMONDSON Glen Huber got me good. It was 1960. Our fifth grade class was going to have a mock presidential election – Kennedy/Nixon. Glen’s family was one of the few Catholic families in our small Indiana town. Our teacher asked for any endorsing speeches. Glen stood up and opened by saying, “I’m not going…
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I knew him back when we were both law clerks fresh out of school – he for one of the most conservative members of the DC Circuit, I for one of its leading liberals. He was a smart guy. Honorable. Someone you disagreed with but respected. As a young Justice Department lawyer,…
BY FROMA HARROP Many of us watching the inferno at Notre Dame de Paris felt that 9/11 dread. This week, as nearly 18 years ago, the news channels kept looping the same horrific video of towers collapsing. At the end, the medieval cathedral remained mostly standing while the twin towers at New York’s World Trade…
BY NYLA ALI KHAN We inhabit a world that has been sinking further into the morass of political unaccountability and cultural repression after the gut-wrenching events of Sept. 11, 2001. We witnessed the fizzling out of the fragile Peace Pact in Palestine in 2003. We witnessed the reduction of Afghanistan in Southwest Asia to a…
BY NYLA ALI KHAN The road to Kabul from India and Pakistan runs through Kashmir, my homeland. Central and Southern Kashmir shares borders with India, Pakistan, and China. Pakistan-administered Northwest Kashmir shares a border with Afghanistan and China. China administers the Northeast Aksai Chin and Trans-Karakoram tract in the northeast. Various territorial disputes persist. Thus,…
