THE BAD WEATHER OVER AMERICA
So Many Questions, Who Has The Answers? "We!"
by James Carroll, Boston Globe Newspaper 5/27/03

When will the bad weather end? Why the distance between what is and what ought to be? At home, an anxious sadness underlies the civic life. Abroad, the United States wages war on such vaporous pretexts that when they dissipate in the first breeze of mourners wailing, Americans take no notice.
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