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...Alan Brinkley is a professor of American history at Columbia University...
...then came the stinging public criticism of Tom Mashberg and the Herald. A criticism that until then had been only privately grumbled by both law enforcement and museum officials. "In helping these crooks get a ransom, they have been a facilitator of criminal conduct," says attorney Alan Dershowitz, who mercilessly flogged his targets in Boston Magazine. But he didn't stop with Mashberg and the Herald. The Federal Government and the Gardner took some lashes too, for negotiating with scoundrels. "We're not talking about kidnap victims or terrorists holding hostages. It's art. It's great...
...Dershowitz's slam, Mashberg says, "I'm a journalist. I'm not an agent of the government. The Federal Government makes deals with criminals all the time. They turn drug dealer A loose to get drug dealer B; they free mob killer A to get mob killer B. And Alan Dershowitz represents wife abusers and murderers. I don't see how he isn't guilty of the same thing he accuses me of. This case basically was nowhere after 7 1/2 years, and in the last 7 1/2 weeks, look...
...from the rest of UNSCOM at the end was at least a symbolic victory for Saddam, and the kind of "illegal separation of nationalities" that chief inspector Richard Butler had railed against. Not to worry. "We have a job to do, and we hope to return," said inspector Alan Dacey. MacArthur couldn't have said it better...
...There's a potential here for an enormous train wreck," an administration official told the New York Times. "It's not clear, however, that there is much we could do to prevent it." More details about U.S. concerns for Japan and Asia were expected Thursday when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers testify before Congress...