June 18, 2004

For Frank Newman, Anything Was Possible

By ARTHUR LEVINE

Several weeks ago, I bought a foot-tall plastic palm tree to send to my friend, Frank Newman, who was very ill. It reminded me of something I had once seen in Poland. Right in the middle of one of Warsaw's busiest downtown thoroughfares, an enormous, realistic plastic palm tree had been erected. As everyone knows, it is impossible to grow a palm tree in Warsaw's cold climate -- and that is exactly why it was there. For a country beleaguered for centuries, the palm stood for hope. It

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