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...Cathy Wagner Cormack, his secretary of 24 years, testified that Packwood had altered portions of his diaries, which she transcribed from audiotape to paper. The Senate ethics committee subpoenaed the diaries in October -- a move that Packwood has been fighting in court. Cormack told committee lawyers that something was amiss after Packwood took the tapes from her this fall. "When they were brought back to my possession, after he had taken them," she said, "I just . . . I sensed that there might have been some alterations. He basically confirmed that." She added, "As best I can recall, he said something about...
Armstrong sees nothing amiss or unusual in this evolutionary process. New ideas about God have always emerged in response to new psychological needs. Had the great faiths lacked this capacity to change, they might well have withered away. "All religions change and develop," the author writes. "If they do not, they will become obsolete." Consequently, "each generation has to create its own imaginative conception...
...family and colleagues realized that something was amiss when Weinstein failed to meet his eldest daughter Lori at La Guardia Airport the morning of his kidnapping and then did not show up for an important business meeting a few hours later. The next day, the abductors, dramatically calling themselves the Black Cat Organization, phoned twice to demand a $3 million ransom. Those were the first of what would eventually total more than 50 calls, including one recorded message from Weinstein and a brief call he was allowed to make on ! a cellular phone that his captors lowered down into...
...military should participate in sanctioning a category of falsehood by silence," says New York University law professor Stephen Gillers. "More than any institution in society, probably including the family, the military insists that its effectiveness demands loyalty to the organization above loyalty to self. If there's something amiss, you're supposed to speak up. If homosexuality or its practice is considered wrong, you're supposed to acknowledge it and others are supposed to expose you. This so-called compromise is dishonorable on its face...
...wrong: There's plenty amiss with the way Harvard handles race relations--namely that it almost doesn't. And there's enough misunderstanding and mistrust among racial and ethnic groups at Harvard-Herzegovina to make anyone complain...