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...government will always ensure that the punishment fits the crime. After last week, it's almost reasonable to ask whether federal agents cut corners on all their cases or just the ones involving Chinese Americans and national security. "Most federal cases are well founded and ethically prosecuted," says John Barrett, a former U.S. prosecutor who teaches law at St. John's University in New York City. "But Wen Ho Lee now stands in the place of every defendant who claims to be wrongly charged or wrongly overcharged. That's a good climate for a defense attorney and an unfortunate...
Earlier this month, a biography of the New York City mayor broke some news so startling and ironic that it even had Hillary clucking in sympathy. Rudy!, by investigative reporter Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, reveals that the famous crime buster hails from a family of crooks. Rudy's deceased father Harold was convicted of burglary at 15 and armed robbery at 26; he went on to be a baseball-bat-wielding debt collector for Rudy's uncle Leo D'Avanzo, a "petty mafioso" loan shark. For Giuliani, who may not have known about his father's imprisonment...
...truly compelling theme in Oppenheimer's book (as in Barrett's) is how far its subject has traveled in life. But that won't be Topic A this week, because Oppenheimer claims Hillary made an anti-Jewish remark in 1974, on the night Bill lost his first campaign. His main source for the story has been interviewed by several other biographers, none of whom reports such a slur. Hillary dismisses the tale. But she has sown suspicion among some Jews by kissing the wife of Yasser Arafat and voicing support for Palestinian statehood. The story has already spurred tabloid headlines...
...team was led by Nation editor Priscilla Painton, who edited the package, and our aptly named Special Projects editor Barrett Seaman, a former Navy man, who coordinated logistics and kept us in line. Other key crew members included photographer Diana Walker; Nancy Gibbs, who wrote the overview Essay; and our Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill and Southern bureau chief Timothy Roche, who coordinated the task of scouting out stories...
With the number of elderly Americans expected to double by 2030, when 70 million people will be 65 or older, you'd think we would face up to the reality of the most ubiquitous aging issues: housing, health care and finances. But according to AARP researcher Linda Barrett, most parents and their adult children still avoid the topics...