“No person in the United States shall, on bias of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal assistance …” Those words, written and passed into law by the United States Congress in June 1972, are the foundations of […]

Good for Graham Platner for saying “I’m sorry.” We need people in Washington, D.C., who can say “I’m sorry.” Every week, Platner is on the front page saying “I’m sorry” for something he said yesterday or eight years ago: about the glories of combat, the weakness of women, the sad state of disabled people; we […]

On reading Randy Billings’ April 3 article (“Platner re-ups criticism of Collins for Iraq vote,”) an illustrated poem from childhood — “The Land of Counterplane” by Robert Louis Stevenson — came to mind; it spoke of a sick boy, in bed, marching little toy soldiers across his bed sheets to amuse himself. Youngsters of many […]