Phoebe M. W. kosman

Columns

I, The Jury

By Phoebe M. W. kosman October 29, 2002

This August, just when I began to think the U.S. Postal Service had stopped menacing Americans—no one had received anthrax-laced

Letters

By Phoebe M. W. kosman December 03, 2001

Students returning home for Thanksgiving were warned to expect increased security at airports. The evening news advised air travelers to

By Phoebe M. W. kosman November 20, 2001

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, public attention has turned once again to the cryptic prognosticatory quatrains of

Letters

By Phoebe M. W. kosman November 13, 2001

It has become a running joke—one of the hardiest generated by the torrent of gallows humor that followed Sept. 11.