They are coming. You can hear them faintly now, the steady, relentless, intractable trudge of boots in the dark streets of America. The army of the night. And they are coming for you. This is serious, and if you live in Raleigh and you rent, I urge you to read this. A month or so […]
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Man on a mission
“Where the hell did you come from?!” This big trooper yelped like he’d seen a ghost after he spotted me entering building 69, a cavernous concrete structure deep inside Ft. Benning, a sprawling military base in Columbus, Ga. I told him and showed him the same letter from my editor that, through innocent persuasion on […]
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The drug war’s just blowing smoke
I was on a long bus ride, sitting next to a gentle, weathered black man, married for 30 years and on his way home from Orlando to Athens. We were rolling through the moonlit, rolling piney hills of central Georgia. The conversation turned to drugs. “So what about the drugs?” Lawson asks. “Lookie here, Lawson,” […]
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From roomies to fam-a-lee
Life becomes simpler when dark specks are eliminated–the proverbial bliss of ignorance and all that. So it is with newspapers. I have lately forsworn the handling of those grubby sheaves–at least without gloves. But a horseback guess brings one to the border, from there it’s a matter of establishing the “facts” by poring over pages […]
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On patrol against the IMF
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 20Morning dawned cold and clear. Light rains had blown through during the night, leaving the new day suffused with that certain gelid, golden quality. Sept. 11 weather. From my bivouac in a forest near the crosses of Arlington, I’d had hours to safely observe the Federal District by night, protected by the […]
