Snakes and Ladders

(a board game known in the U.S. as “Chutes and Ladders”) How was the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States remembered? In New York, at “Ground Zero”, a reading was held of the names of the dead (several of them Mexican). In Berlin, the German Chancellor led official ceremonies, and Beethoven’s […]

RFK Jr. – in his own words

[The following article, in edited form, appears in the winter 2002 issue of Conservation Matters, the quarterly magazine of the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation. Here is the original, uncut version.] Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., 48, is the second son of the former Attorney General and U.S. Senator. He was fourteen when his father was assassinated […]