http://www.thedailystar.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:55:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_194103535.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_194103535.html It is difficult to believe that, just six months ago, I figured there was little more damage that President Bush could do to this country _ despite our powerlessness to stop him. Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:04:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_173041519.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_173041519.html It amazes me that we have heard or seen so much bull about pastors and churches and religion in this year's races for president. Sat, 31 May 2008 14:05:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_152041511.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_152041511.html Now that gasoline has reached that $4-a-gallon plateau, which we'll find is more of an ascending slope than we thought, most people are not reacting with the anger or resolve that I had expected. Sat, 10 May 2008 14:07:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_131041508.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_131041508.html Though it's looking increasing unlikely that we'll have a mother as president next year, it has been exciting to have the first woman and mother to be so close to earning the Democratic nomination. Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:09:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_110041507.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_110041507.html A professor I knew once said that, without philosophy, history is "just one damn thing after another.'' In one way or another, he's right, and that has helped produce the unexpected surge in the number of college students who believe they need to read about Socrates now and worry about money and careers later. Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:10:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_089083152.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_089083152.html We're learning once again that the best way to get Americans to pay attention to an issue is to raise prices. People in other nations are fighting over food because of shortages, prices everywhere are soaring and experts say it is not going to get any better. Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:11:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_068041515.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_068041515.html So what happened? This column was supposed to be about why Barack Obama had all but wrapped up the Democratic presidential nomination after Tuesday's voting. It still is, but ... then there's Hillary. Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:12:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_047041533.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_047041533.html Poor Hillary. It's her historical moment but it wasn't supposed to be like this. Such variables. Such a struggle. With a regal touch, she was supposed to breeze through the early primaries and have the nomination sewed up by now. After all, for months, as the front-runner, political life followed the script she had worked years to write. Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:13:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_026041547.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_026041547.html Let me get this straight. Our country is heading into a recession, and nobody knows what to do about it except dole out money to people to put the country even more in debt. Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:14:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_005041526.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_005041526.html It appears the new year is going to be marked by two long, drawn-out events from which at times it will seem we can get no relief. Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:43:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_349041531.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_349041531.html So, the question, then, is whether we can live without God and redemption, while maintaining a need and an ability to live an ethical life, and still have some moments of happiness. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:24:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_328041507.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_328041507.html "Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.'' Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:00:59 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_307041514.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_307041514.html It looks like I might have been wrong when I predicted that President Bush would attack Syria first. The warmonger definitely has his scope pointed toward Iran. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:59 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_265041505.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_265041505.html Recently, I received a letter by e-mail from Mr. Kwabena Ofori, who said he was from the Red Cross and needed my help to save the life of a teenager with heart disease. Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:49:00 +0000 http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_264124951.html http://www.thedailystar.com/carycolumn/local_story_264124951.html If you ask why a beat goes out on the road you know the answer isn’t always gonna be to get to some other place, because a lot of traveling was just for the hell of it _ because they could. It is hard to believe it’s been fifty years since "On The Road" came off the presses and even stranger yet to think that for the experiences it’s about you’re looking at more like sixty. But in 1957, Sept. 5 was the day it happened.