It was U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Feb. 5, 2003 address to the United Nations which convinced Bob Drogin that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.
Until then, said Mr. Drogin, who covers issues of weapons proliferation, terrorism and intelligence — nukes, kooks and spooks — out of Washington for the Los Angeles Times, “I was a sceptic.”
It is one of the enduring pieces of Martha’s Vineyard lore: you take your recycling to the transfer station, separate it as directed into containers for plastics, paper, cardboard, aluminum and so on, and then at the end of the day it all gets tossed in together and dumped.
Like glass, the myth recycles endlessly. But it is a myth.
So a Jew and a Catholic go into a sushi restaurant . . . It sounds like the setup for a joke, but the first date for Arnie Reisman and Paula Lyons was not much fun. On the second date, though, he made her laugh. Now his jokes and her laugh have been features on the NPR program Says You for 12 years. They own a home in Menemsha.
Interviews by Mike Seccombe
Arnie: We met in at Channel Five in Boston. Paula started in there in 1978 and I got there in ’79. She was a consumer reporter — and remained one for 25 years — until 2003.
A detailed five-point plan to rehabilitate two Sheriff’s Meadow Foundation properties that were mined for trees and plants early this summer to landscape a private North Shore property — in breach of the Endangered Species Act — has been submitted to state environmental authorities by the conservation organization.
The names of Flip Scipio’s clients — Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder, and Carly Simon among them — are testament to him as a guitar technician.
Other names you’ve never heard of are testament to him as a person. They are the names of soldiers in Afghanistan, whose music he also enabled. Not that he even mentions it until it comes up in conversation at his Aquinnah home.
They began descending on Martha’s Vineyard yesterday, the most powerful people in the Democratic Party, and their big money backers, for a few days of schmoozing and fund raising and plotting the way to victory in November.
