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Letters and Op-Eds by Martin G. Evans (aka Griffith Evans)

In case you didn't know from my letters:

and ask you to check out the
which reveals the lies and deceptions
of the Bush Administration prior to the Iraq War.
See the Guardian Timeline on the Iraq War

For more on this see Frank Rich's New York Times column of November 27th. 2005.

2007

For Commentaries from January 2007 onwards see: idle thoughts
at http://martingevans.blogspot.com/

2006

December

Constitutional Convention Unpublished
Sharing the sacrifice. New York Times
More Troops for Iraq. Unpublished
Ideas: The Arizona Ballot. New York Times Magazine
The Decider Vacillates Unpublished
Patrick's stumble. Unpublished

November

The Massachusetts Marriage Amendment. Unpublished
Rumsfeld's Army Unpublished

October [Lots of repetition from prior months as the same issues resurface during the election]

Catholics and Marriage. Unpublished
Biden voted for a war option. Unpublished
Healey's needles. Unpublished
Electoral Reform Unpublished
Habeas Corpus. Unpublished
Iraq: Who pays? Unpublished

September

The Arar Case. Unpublished
Choice of a State Reptile. Unpublished
The military and no child left behind Unpublished
Terrorist Threats Unpublished
Misplaced Stories. Unpublished
Bonuses Unpublished

August

Will the deficit be reduced? Unpublished
Avoid retroactive legislation. Boston Globe
British Petroleum. Unpublished
Lieberman. Unpublished
Responses from Organizational Behavior Experts on the Arizona Lottery Question.
The Arizona Voting Lottery: A Second Look. Unpublished

July

Liar or Bully? Unpublished
Jacoby on Government Work. Unpublished
Three op-eds inspired by the Big Dig Tunnel Disaster

Op-Ed: Flexible Hours and Big Dig Congestion. Unpublished
Op-Ed: Managerial Lessons from the Big Dig Tunnel Collapse. Unpublished
Op-Ed: Need for an Independent Investigation. Unpublished

Romney: Engineer?. Unpublished
A model for Israeli restraint. Unpublished
Mitt and the Big Dig. Unpublished
Withdraw the Haynes Nomination. Unpublished
Hospital Deaths. Unpublished
Kerry Healey and OTC Needles. Unpublished

June

Op-Ed: After Texas and Vermont. Unpublished
Op-Ed: The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. Cambridge Chronicle
Due Process. Unpublished
Gun Legislation. Unpublished
No witnesses for Gitmo Prisoners. Unpublished
The Marriage Amendment. Unpublished
The States Secret defense. Unpublished
Keyboards and Morse Code. Unpublished
Tearing Iraq Apart Unpublished

May

Condoleeza Rice at Boston College. Unpublished
Mistreatment of Detainees. Unpublished
Postponement of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. Unpublished
Health Insurance Cartoon. Unpublished
Nuance Needed with Iran. Unpublished
Boots on the Ground ... and In Space. Unpublished

April

Franklin, the first Blogger. Unpublished
Republicans and Oil Prices. Unpublished
Cambridge Call for Redistricting. Cambridge Chronicle
The Futility of Illegal Rendition. Unpublished
MAD won't work on the US. Unpublished
Cheney Taking a Back-Seat? Unpublished
Too late, the Generals. Unpublished
Romney's Health Care Veto. Boston Globe [scroll down]
Libby's Claim. Unpublished
Hearing loss. Unpublished
The Governor and the Phone Company Unpublished

March

Hospital Unions. Unpublished
FBI Monitoring. Unpublished
Who is accountable for the "Black Room". Unpublished
Deval Patrick's House. Unpublished
Troop Levels. Unpublished
The SAT Errors. Unpublished
Science and Government. Unpublished
Presidential material. Unpublished
Academic Governance Unpublished

February

Faculty Club. Unpublished
Health Care reform hopes. Unpublished
Types of cloning. Unpublished
Bush's energy policy. Unpublished
Reilly and St. Fleur. Unpublished
Energy Policy. Unpublished

January

Bush doesn't need a new lawyer, just a new direction. Unpublished
Canada's Election Result. Unpublished
Laurence Tribe and Government Surveillance. Unpublished
Broken Promises: Iran and Alito. Unpublished
Alito's 1985 Resumé . Unpublished
Senators and Alito. Unpublished
Question for Judge Alito. Unpublished
John Dean on George W. Bush. Unpublished
Machete Budget. Unpublished

2005

December

Healthcare Meltdown. Unpublished
Impeach Bush! Unpublished
Why did we go to war? Unpublished
Testing Voting Machines. Unpublished
What did Bush learn at Harvard Business School? Unpublished
Universal Healthcare. Unpublished
The NYT's Ethicist's response: Politically Blind. New York Times Magazine
Heartening Headline. Unpublished
Army Propaganda. Unpublished

November

Apt Words. Unpublished
Petition Deadline. Unpublished
Sharing the Sacrifice. Unpublished
Continuing looting in Iraq. Unpublished
More half-truths from GWB. Unpublished
Redistricting. Unpublished
Forces for Peace. Unpublished
At the Voting Station. Unpublished
Single Payer Health Care. New York Times
The Selective Memory of David Brooks. Unpublished

October

Massachusetts Taxes. Unpublished
Softwood Lumber. Unpublished
Lack of Planning. Unpublished
Umpires and Justices. Unpublished
Op-Ed: Path Dependence in the War on Iraq. Unpublished

September

Blame Romney. Boston Globe
Team Player. Unpublished
Gay Marriage. Unpublished
Taking Responsibility. Unpublished
D'Alessandro and Kilts. Unpublished
Gillette Merger. Unpublished
Incompetence. Not a government monopoly. Unpublished
Graduate School Language Requirements. Unpublished
Museum of Fine Arts Mission Statement. Unpublished

August
- The Lost War. Unpublished
- Op-Ed: Cambridge Redistricting. Cambridge Chronicle
- Romney's brainwashing. Unpublished
- Romney's evolution. Unpublished
- Strikeout! Unpublished

July
- Terrorist Profiling. Unpublished
- Romney rides the Subway for one stop. Unpublished
- Pitying Senator Santorum. Unpublished
- Loyalty and Karl Rove. Unpublished
- Updating "They came for me". Unpublished
- Health Insurance. Unpublished (but see November 2005)
- Gillette's Generosity. Unpublished
June
- Leading by Example. Unpublished
- Comment to Frontline on Contractors in Iraq. Unpublished
- A Nation of Laws not of Men. Unpublished
- Golden Parachutes. Unpublished
- Workforce Training. Boston Globe
- Op-Ed: Parallels with Orwell's 1984. Unpublished
May
- Keeping Bush in the Dark. Unpublished
- Bush's betrayal of military values. Unpublished
- John Kerry avoids his Constituents. Unpublished
- More on Social Security. Unpublished

April
- What about the subsidies? Unpublished
- Rural De-electrification. Unpublished
- John Bolton. Boston Globe
- Subway Congestion and Flexible Working Hours. Unpublished

March

Unfair Comparisons. Unpublished
Abandonment of Consular Rules. Unpublished
Social Security: What Crisis? Unpublished
Lebanon and Iraq. Unpublished
Was Churchill a neo-con? New York Times Book Review

February

The Peace Movement. Unpublished
Bush whacked sage brush while al Qaida prepared. Unpublished
Bush's inconsistent policies. Unpublished
Who owns MY Social Security Benefits? Unpublished

January
- Social Security, Bush, and the big lie. Unpublished

2004
- December
- November
- - Op-Ed: How to Pay for the War [.pdf]. Unpublished
  - Consequences of Bush's Re-election. Unpublished
- October
- - Bush's abdication of responsibility. Unpublished
  - Redistricting in Massachusetts. Unpublished
  - Health care in the third debate. Unpublished
- September
- - Donald Rumsfeld's comments on Abuse and Terrorists. Unpublished
  - Recall George W. Bush to the Colors. Unpublished
  - Convention truths. Unpublished
  - The forgetfulness of Collins and McCain. Unpublished
  - The hollowness of Bush's values. Unpublished
- August
- - John McCain on the rationale for the Iraq war. Unpublished
  - Susan Collins' amnesia on DHS. Unpublished
  - Kerry would still Vote for War Authorization. Why? Boston Globe
- July
- - Jacoby's Cheap Shots. Unpublished
  - Insulin: Another false claim. Unpublished
  - Microsoft's priorities. Unpublished
  - Handwashing in Hospitals. Unpublished
  - Which Women Candidates? Unpublished
  - Slanting Science. Unpublished
- June
- - Privatization's dirty little secret. Unpublished
  - Op-Ed: Accountability in Government. Unpublished
  - Massachusetts Senate Vacancy Bill. Unpublished
  - Op-Ed: More dots to connect. Unpublished
  - Op-Ed: The ignorance of George W. Bush. Unpublished
- May
- - General Zinni's Disclosures. Unpublished
  - Kerry loses Touch. Unpublished
  - Troop Rotation. Unpublished
  - Crisis Management. Unpublished
  - Abuses in Iraq. Unpublished
  - Op-Ed: Objections to Incentives for Teachers [.pdf]. Unpublished
  - Op-Ed: Prison Abuse [.pdf]. Unpublished
  - Enemy Combatant Prisoners' Rights in the USA. Unpublished
- April
- - Doonsbury and Millard Fillmore. Unpublished
  - Op-Ed: Barriers to Accurate Information [.pdf]. Unpublished
  - Insulin, Boston and Toronto. Unpublished
  - Op-Ed: Executive Compensation [.pdf]. Unpublished
  - Mis-placed Hyphen. Unpublished
2003
- October
- - Manulife and John Hancock. Globe & Mail, Toronto
- May
- - Strauss and the NeoCons. New York Times
2002
- November
- - Homeland Security. New York Times
- September
- - Romney and Women Leaders. Unpublished
  - Keep Reich's Vision Alive. Boston Globe
- July
- - Cloning Ted Williams. Boston Globe
  - Romney Works for a Day. Unpublished
- June
- - Catholic Hierarchy doesn't get It. Unpublished
  - Where does Mitt live. Unpublished
1999
- August
- - B.C.'s distinct society. Globe & Mail, Toronto [Text not available]
- July
- - University Costs and Basic Research. New York Times Magazine
1996
- April
- - Op-Ed: Alternatives to Downsizing. [by Martin Evans, Hugh Gunz, and Michael Jalland] Financial Post, Toronto
- February
- - Op-Ed: Alternative Models of Downsizing. [by Martin Evans, Hugh Gunz, and Michael Jalland] Financial Post, Toronto
1995
- July
- - Op-Ed: Avoiding the Perils of Downsizing. [by Martin Evans, Hugh Gunz, and Michael Jalland] Financial Post, Toronto
1994
- October
- - Investors invest; Executives manage. New York Times, Business Section, page 4
  - Student Fees. Globe & Mail, Toronto
- April
- - Corporate Governance. Globe & Mail, Toronto [Text Not available]
  - Travelogue: South East Asia -- from Jai Sorn to Ko Lanta ... and on to Singapore
1992
- July
- - PR Dream World. Globe & Mail, Toronto
1991
- July
- - Unions in the workplace [by M. G. Evans, D. A. Ondrack, & A. Verma]. Globe & Mail, Toronto [Text not available]
  - Knowing your onions. Globe & Mail, Toronto
- February
- - Op-Ed: Bankruptcy: A population perspective. Financial Post, Toronto [Text not available]
1988
- May
- - A fate worse than flames University of Toronto Bulletin

1983
- January
- - Op-Ed: Customer desertion heightens Canada Post's problems. Financial Post, Toronto [Text not available]
1982
- September
- - Adolescent Antics of the Prime Minister. Globe & Mail, Toronto
1981
- January
- - Op-Ed: 'Group Think' can be disastrous. Financial Post, Toronto
1980
- May
- - Reporting on Separatism. Globe & Mail, Toronto
- April
- - Op-Ed:Walking a fine line. Globe & Mail, Toronto
1975
- October
- - A Plea to Save Bath. New York Times (Travel Section, page 5)
- July
- - Op-Ed: Gifts to Government. Toronto Star
1974
- December
- - Watergate Nursery Rhymes. Unpublished
- July
- - Op-Ed: A seven-block walk of Architectural Whims. Globe & Mail, Toronto

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