Author Archives: Simon Clements

Thank you for your recent story on torture. It’s been just two weeks since photographic proof finally thrust the story into the mainstream media and already torture apologists are asking that we forget about it and return our attention to the “war on terror”–the irony being that it was their diversion of funds and forces […]

Barnaby Dinges [“Teachers or Touchdowns,” October 17] was brought in to give the $560 million spent on Soldier Field a positive spin. If that money had been spent on schools there’d be no need to hire a publicist; wise investments need no PR spin doctors. I agree with Mr. Dinges, we need a great city […]