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...saying Timothy McVeigh had told his defense team that he bombed the Oklahoma City federal building, and that he intended to leave a "body count" in order to "make our point" to the Federal Government. In your story naming the Morning News one of America's best papers, you assert that publishing that story constituted some kind of journalistic faux pas. I find that assessment as puzzling as it is unsupported by fact. The Morning News story was accurate, the documents it quoted were legitimate, and the reporter engaged in neither illegal nor unethical conduct in obtaining the documents. Stephen...
...think you'll find a group in the North End that is starting to ethnically assert themselves," said Paul Scapicchio, a North End resident at the breakfast who is now in the midst of a campaign for the Boston City Council...
What's more maddening to national-test advocates is the defection of their supposed friends on the left. Liberal critics assert that the math test will stigmatize poor and minority students who don't perform well. They fret that schools will use national-exam results in determining who to promote to the next grade. And they even complain that the reading test discriminates against students who don't read English. Feelings run so strong in the House that virtually all members of the left-leaning black and Hispanic caucuses plan to vote against the tests this week. "If national testing...
...after the latest bombings in Jerusalem. Comparing the two events, the Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, reminded citizens that "battles are not tragedies. They are battles." Still, once the dead have been given their due, the calamity will serve as a powerful argument for Israelis who assert it is time to leave Lebanon. The Netanyahu administration says it will do just that if the government in Beirut will disband the militias and take responsibility for the security zone. Increasingly, Israelis are saying they cannot wait...
...whiteness of tooth, a colluding smile, a certain transparency, a vividness, an exposed vulnerability: it was enough for him, and it was enough for us. Madonna sings. Grace Kelly acted. Diana simply breathed. She was a social-page figure who became a cover girl. One can soberly assert that the Diana saga, in itself, was a nonstory, remorselessly and fanatically annotated by our own projections and desires. Rather, we are the story. Equipped with no talent, Diana evolved into the most celebrated woman on earth. What does that tell us about the third rock from...