The plan seemed perfect. It was June 28, 1919, and the Allies
had won a long and arduous war with Germany. At the Paris Peace
Conference on this fateful day, the Germans signed the Treaty of
Versailles, an agreement requiring Germany to surrender all German
colonies, as the League of Nations mandated.

F or many people, the term “Ground Zero” was newly
added to our vocabularies that terrible September morning. However,
a couple of years earlier, I had learned about the first Ground
Zero.

Bowling for Columbine” director Michael Moore has received
a lot of press lately because he referred to Bush as a
“fictitious president fighting a fictitious war” when
he accepted an Oscar last Sunday.

During a recent trip to a military base in Texas, President Bush
urged troops to prepare for war and assured them that they would
fight not to conquer, but to liberate.

Monogamy, or at least the idea of “forever,” is
quickly becoming obsolete.
We live in a world where the idea of being committed to one
person grows more and more uninviting.

It’s hard to imagine 12 grapes having much significance.
It’s difficult to comprehend how 12 purple pieces of fruit
could symbolize hope, desire and, most importantly, tradition.