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...search for the fugitive named as a witness to the Birmingham abortion clinic bombing enters its fourteenth frustrating day, FBI agents decline to discuss the video that may reveal a bureau blunder. TIME writer Greg Fulton reports that the fugitive allegedly rented the tape at a store near his home on the night of the bombing. "That would suggest he only went on the run after the FBI went public with his name," says Fulton. In other words, if Rudolph's name hadn't been broadcast on TV that night, he might have been home when investigators arrived the next...
...beginning of this year, but the fact remains that the crossword is different (read: worse) than it was in the 1996-97 school year. It's much easier (certainly able to be completed in less than half a lecture) and often poorly formatted, as Friday's oversized-box blunder demonstrates. It's interesting to note that Joshua Kaufman's column singing the praises of the illustrious crossword ("Viva la Crossword," Feb. 5) made certain to delineate that he was referring to the New York Times Crossword only. All crossword-lovers will agree that the Times crossword is the superior choice...
Which is why his response to the latest White House blunder says so much about Bill Clinton's presidency now. Four years ago, a staff member would rather have resigned than be the one to tell the boss about the ill-timed release of the videotapes made of Clinton's coffees with big-money donors. Yet when deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills brought him the news, first disclosed by TIME, Clinton responded in private much as he did last week in public: with frustration, but also with fatalistic detachment. "He doesn't do the big temper tantrum as much...
...national pride, there is speculation that a British plot killed the princess to prevent her from marrying an Egyptian. It's more likely that the Windsors may have been thinking that marriage to Dodi, a man routinely described as a foreign playboy, would have been a public-relations blunder for Diana and a badly needed plus for them. For once it would make their tweedy rectitude seem appealing to the British public. When compared to the chaotic sequence of greed and blundering that took Diana's life, the thought of a well-organized conspiracy would be a comfort...
Perhaps what I saw as a blunder in that interview several months back was no blunder at all. By admitting that I was ignorant and wanted to learn, I found people who were willing to teach. Looking back, I realize that all of the other people who interviewed me last spring probably saw right through my attempts to tell them what I thought they wanted to hear. My interviews were probably almost identical to dozens of others--yet another person trying glibly to hide her inexperience...