washingtonpost.com - Harold Meyerson -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com)Harold Meyerson writes about politics and policy for The Washington Post's op-ed page.Cockeyed Optimists Again- June 19, 2008 On a deep, uncluttered stage that stretches back to suggest pristine beaches and the boundless Pacific beyond, the young sailors and Seabees encounter a world in which nothing is familiar except themselves. White sailors on one part of the stage, black on another -- the services were still segregated during World War II -- they clamorously note a deficiency in island life from which black and white suffer alike: There aren't any dames. Well, hardly any.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061802633.html?nav=r... The L.A. Times's Human Wrecking Ball- June 11, 2008 On Oct. 1, 1910, a bomb set by James McNamara, an operative of the Iron Workers union, then embroiled in a ferocious dispute with the Los Angeles Times, blew up the Times building, killing 21 pressmen. McNamara was arrested the following April, convicted and later sentenced to life in prison. He died in San Quentin in 1941.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061002529.html?nav=r... Patching Up the Democrats- June 4, 2008 Forty years ago tonight, I was one of a number of very young staffers on Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign crammed into a Los Angeles hotel room, where we watched on television as Robert Kennedy, a few miles down Wilshire Boulevard at the Ambassador Hotel, claimed victory in the California primary. A few minutes later, the networks reported that Kennedy had been shot. The rest of the evening was a mix of anxiety, nausea, tears, misgivings and despair.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303160.html?nav=r... |