We Spend January 1st Walking Through Our

I Am A Member Of A Small, Nearly Extinct Minority Group, A Kind Of Urban Lost Tribe Who Insist, In The Face Of All Evidence To The Contrary, On The Sanctity Of Being On Time. Which Is To Say That We On-timers Are Compulsively, Unfashionably Prompt, That There Are Only Handfuls Of Us In Any Given City And, Unfortunately, We Never Seem To Have Appointments With Each Other.

In Journalism, There Has Always Been A Tension Between Getting It First And Getting It Right.

I Don't Know Exactly Why The Notion Of Homeownership Has Such A Grasp On The American Imagination. Perhaps As Descendants Of Landless Immigrants We Turn Our Plots Into Symbols Of Stability.

The Same People Who Tell Us That Smoking Doesn't Cause Cancer Are Now Telling Us That Advertising Cigarettes Doesn't Cause Smoking.

Pro-choice Supporters Are Often Heard Using The Cool Language Of The Courts And The Vocabulary Of Rights. Americans Who Are Deeply Ambivalent About Abortion Often Miss The Sound Of Caring.