Numbers: 72 : Percent of Americans who don't know their neighbor, according to culture watcher Bill McKibben, quoted in the Louisville Courier-Journal:
http://www.courier-journal.com/features/columns/popculture/fe20011130pop.html

Is there virtue in deriding a murderous madman? On the punchline frontlines, Leno and Letterman lead the charge against bin Laden:
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/columnists/ny-p2kitman...

Robert J. Samuelson of the Wash. Post writes about economics with more clarity than most; here's his column on the background of the recession:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58396-2001Dec4.html