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color="#3366cc"> Announcements</font></a></b><br> Volume III Is Now Printed</font></p> </font></td> <td width="219" colspan="2" height="1"><font face="Tahoma"> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Poetry Reading by  Alastair <a href="Reid.htm">Reid</a></font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="239" height="6" colspan="2"><font face="Tahoma"> <p align="center" style="text-align: left"> <font face="Times New Roman"><i><b><font color="#255038">The Gulf Between the Candidates</font></b></i></font></font></td> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="242" height="6" colspan="2"><font face="Tahoma"> <font color="#255038" face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Conjugating Verbs</i></b></font></font></td> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="213" height="6" bgcolor="#FFFBD9" colspan="2"><font face="Tahoma"> <font color="#255038" face="Times New Roman"><b><i>Photography</i></b></font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="223" height="6"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman">   For this presidential election, we perceived the gulf between the two candidates to be wider than ever before.  We went to the poles in record numbers.  Our passions ran deep as some of us defaced bumper stickers, pelted political offices with rocks, and committed other acts of vandalism against supporters of the opposing party....   Sadly, most of our debates were rich in parochial detail and emotion, but impoverished in global insight and wisdom.</font></font></td> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="7" height="6"><font face="Tahoma"></font></td> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="221" height="6"><font face="Tahoma"> <p><font face="Times New Roman" size="2">   Bertrand Russell, twentieth century mathematician and logician, was famous for things like discovering Russell’s Paradox and receiving the Nobel Prize for literature, and was notorious for things like being often married—Elizabeth Taylor’s counterpart—and was several times fired and jailed for, of all things, being opposed to war.  One of his more light-hearted “discoveries” was his conjugation of verbs.<br>    Verb conjugations, if you remember ....</font></p></font></td> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="6" height="6"><font face="Tahoma"></font></td> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="198" height="6"><font face="Tahoma"><p align="center"> <font face="Lucida Calligraphy" color="#000080" size="4">by</font><p align="center"> <font face="Lucida Calligraphy" color="#000080" size="4">Charles Bartolotta</font></font></td> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="0" height="6"><font face="Tahoma"></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 3 inset #BEB480" width="239" colspan="2" height="19"><font face="Tahoma"> <p align="right"><font face="Times New Roman"><font color="#003300" size="2"> by Charles Miess                        </font><font size="2"><b><i>in <a 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Helz</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="353" height="1" colspan="2" align="center"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300">July 2004   v IV  #7</font></font></td> <td width="347" height="1" colspan="2" align="center"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300">August 2004   v IV  #8</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="66" height="1"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300"> Editorials:<br> Columns:<br> Arts:</font></font></td> <td width="285" height="1"><font face="Tahoma"><font color="#003300"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Ethics of Loyalty</i>—Marien Helz<br> <i>The Many Faces of Eve</i>—Charles Miess<br> </font><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Painting</font></i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">—</font><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Pei-Hua Chiang</font></i></font></font></td> <td width="60" height="1"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300"> Editorials:<br> Columns:<br> Arts:</font></font></td> <td width="342" height="1"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300"><i> Politics and Sex</i>—Marien Helz<br> <i>Liver and Onions</i>—Charles Miess<br> <i>Photography</i>—Michelle M. Mayer</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="351" height="1" colspan="2" bgcolor="#EDE4CB" align="center"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300">September 2004   v IV  #9</font></font></td> <td width="402" height="1" colspan="2" bgcolor="#EDE4CB" align="center"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300">October 2004   v IV  #10</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="66" height="1" bgcolor="#EDE4CB"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300"> Editorials:<br> Columns:<br> Arts:</font></font></td> <td width="285" height="1" bgcolor="#EDE4CB"><font face="Tahoma"> <font color="#003300"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><i> The 'Whatever' Syndrome</i>—Marien Helz<br> <i>Los Alamos Part I</i>—Cheryl Rofer<br> <i>Fiction</i>—</font><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Charles Miess</font></i></font></font></td> <td width="60" height="1" bgcolor="#EDE4CB"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300"> Editorials:<br> Columns:<br> Arts:</font></font></td> <td width="342" height="1" bgcolor="#EDE4CB"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300"><i> Honeysuckle Tangles</i>—Charles Miess<br> <i>Los Alamos Part II</i>—Cheryl Rofer<br> <i>Photography</i>—Armin W. Helz</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="351" height="1" colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFBD9" align="center"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300">November 2004   v IV  #11</font></font></td> <td width="402" height="1" colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFFBD9" align="center"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300">December 2004   v IV  #12</font></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="66" height="1" bgcolor="#FFFBD9"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300"> Editorials:<br> Columns:<br> Arts:</font></font></td> <td width="285" height="1" bgcolor="#FFFBD9"><font face="Tahoma"> <font color="#003300"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><i>Play Ball</i>—Marien Helz<br> <i>Zoar Valley Part I</i>—Charles Miess<br> <i>Classic Readings</i>—</font><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Charles Miess</font></i></font></font></td> <td width="60" height="1" bgcolor="#FFFBD9"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300"> Editorials:<br> Columns:<br> Arts:</font></font></td> <td width="342" height="1" bgcolor="#FFFBD9"><font face="Tahoma"> <font size="2" face="Times New Roman" color="#003300"><i>The Two Party System</i>—Marien Helz<br> <i>Zoar Valley Part II</i>—Charles Miess<br> <i>Photography</i>—Armin W. Helz</font></font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table><font face="Tahoma"> </div> <p align="center"><font color="#003300">  </font></font><table height="1" cellspacing="0" width="745" border="0"> <tbody> </center> <tr> <td width="743" height="1"><font face="Tahoma"> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2" color="#003300"> The early Indices are available in </font><a href="back_issues.htm"> <font size="2" color="#003300">Back Issues</font></a><font size="2" color="#003300">, <i> Volume I</i> archives are available in </font><a href="2001.htm"> <font size="2" color="#003300">2001</font></a><font size="2" color="#003300">, <i>Volume II</i> in </font><a href="2002.htm"> <font size="2" color="#003300">2002</font></a><font size="2" color="#003300">, <i> Volume III</i> in <a href="2003.htm"> <font color="#003300">2003</font></a>, </font><font size="2"> <font color="#003300">and <i>Volume IV</i> in </font> <a href="2004.htm"><font color="#003300">2004</font></a></font></font></p> </font></td> </tr> <center> <tr> <td width="743" height="1"><font face="Tahoma"></font></td> </tr> </tbody> </table><font face="Tahoma"></font></td> </tr> </table><font face="Tahoma"> </div> <p align="center"></font></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><font face="Tahoma"> <div align="center"> </font><table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="79%" border="0" id="table4" height="178"> <tr> <td><font face="Tahoma"> <div align="center"> <center> </font><table height="164" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="742" border="0" id="table5"> <tr> <td style="border: 7px groove #fbf1aa" align="middle" width="728" height="30" background="_borders/AArt2.jpg"><font face="Tahoma"> <p align="center"><i> <font face="Century Gothic" style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: 700"> <nobr>[ <a href="cover.htm" target="">Cover</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="greetings.htm" target="">Greetings</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="editorials.htm" target="">Editorials</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="columns.htm" target="">Columns</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="arts.htm" target="">Arts</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="archives.htm" target="">Archives</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="notices.htm" target="">Notices</a> ]</nobr> <nobr>[ <a href="classifieds.htm" target="">Classifieds</a> ]</nobr></font></i></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border: 5px groove #fbf1aa" borderColor="#590000" align="middle" width="732" bgColor="#590000" height="1"><font face="Tahoma"> <p style="border: 4px outset #fbf1aa"> <font size="2" face="Enviro" color="#CEBD7B">Word Worth Publisher: <a href="letters.htm#Write"> <font color="#CEBD7B">M H Perry</font></a>    Editors:   <a href="letters.htm#Write"><font color="#CEBD7B">M Helz</font></a>   <a href="letters.htm#Write"><font color="#CEBD7B">A Carter</font></a> <br> Contributors: Susan Johnson · Banwell Goddard · David Clark · Tiffany M. 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