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2002 Stories by Ben Ehrenreich

• Invisble Man

  published December 5, 2002

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• Operation Tarnish

  published October 31, 2002

  After working the night shift at the food-services job she’s held at LAX for the last 21 years, Juana Jimenez went home and crawled into bed. ... More >>

• Passport to Hell

  published October 17, 2002

  Among those who‘ve been unfortunate enough to stumble into the path of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s ”deliberate campaign of arrest ... More >>

• The Hobohemians

  published August 1, 2002

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• Fouling Out

  published June 13, 2002

  One way to fight City Hall See the girl on the TV dressed in a bikini. She doesn‘t think so but she’s dressed for t... More >>

• An Eye for Anarchy

  published June 13, 2002

  “Free Speech Is Not a Crime,” read one sign pegged to a tree at an open-air news conference held Sunday afternoon by the recently formed Lo... More >>

• A Family Divided

  published May 23, 2002

  Last month, at a West L.A. meeting of Jewish activists gathered to plan a protest in front of the Israeli consulate, Rick Chertoff introduced... More >>

• Skin & Fear

  published April 11, 2002

  “. . . what will be left of me when all the destruction is over?” --The Smile of the Lamb In the lounge of a midto... More >>

• Unbearable Consequences

  published April 11, 2002

  IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE A POLITICIAN WITH A more steadfastly anti-abortion record than John Ashcroft, that Lurch-like religious warrior with... More >>

• Operation Miscue

  published April 11, 2002

  it is a perfect late winter Saturday in Huntington Beach. The Santa Anas have scrubbed the sky an almost violent shade of blue. Volleyball... More >>

• Boarding Games

  published February 28, 2002

  I spend a lot of time in airports. Since September 11, I‘ve boarded at least a dozen airplanes, and have tried in an informal way to notic... More >>

• Busting Unions

  published February 14, 2002

  Last March, Tamara Rettino answered a help-wanted ad for Greenpeace. ”Hiring activists,“ it read. ”I thought I could work my way up to ... More >>

• Anthrax Reborn

  published January 31, 2002

  The abortion war continues. George W. Bush declared January 20 to be National Sanctity of Human Life Day, stating that “Unborn children shoul... More >>

• The Father, the Son and the Holy Cop

  published January 24, 2002

  There’s something about this town that drives a man to drink -- a writer, anyway, or so local literature would have you believe. One gnarle... More >>

• 10 Ways To Combat Evil

  published January 3, 2002

  If you don’t happen to have a 15,000-pound BLU-82 “daisy-cutter,” the world’s largest non-nuclear bomb, here are nine ... More >>