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...cosmological charts he doodled was, no surprise, himself. In his books he was a major historical figure, a planetary visionary, often misunderstood. In former Congresswoman Susan Molinari's book he came off as a blubbering though entertaining megalomaniac. At one point, she recalls, he revealed how heavily he bore his mantle: "I get up every morning and say to myself, 'This is the day I shall...
...will be called upon once again to serve their country. One only needs to read one of the other inscriptions on Anderson Bridge to recall that peace is never easily won and must always be treasured: "On either side of the river there was a tree of life which bore twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations...
...impeachment is a non-issue -? yawned out of existence in last week?s election by voters with a laundry list of more important concerns. But for the House Judiciary Committee, it?s still the most pressing matter in America -? as Monday?s strange parade of legal scholars and historians bore witness to. And what did luminaries such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Watergate veteran Rev. Robert Drinan largely agree on? That you can?t, or shouldn?t, censure the President. It?s impeachment or nothing. And that puts the rabidly pro-impeachment GOP majority on the committee on a crash...
...five newspapers and purging Belgrade University of professors. But in a big surprise last week, he sacked his ruthless spymaster, JOVICA STANISIC, whose loyalists fear he may be blamed by Milosevic for the "ethnic cleansing" of much of Bosnia. That explains why, after the ouster, Stanisic said Milosevic bore primary responsibility for the work of the secret police. Why did Milosevic dump a man who may finger him for war crimes? Internal reasons: Milosevic's wife, the retrograde communist MIRA MARKOVIC, and his fascist Vice Premier, VOJISLAV SESELJ, had it in for Stanisic. Yet with Serbs increasingly unhappy with Milosevic...
...Stone understands, moreover, that the average viewer of network news is a candidate for Geritol: "We want to do the same thing as 60 Minutes but in a new kind of way that makes it hip." In other words, his show could delight us with dark possibilities and then bore us with the truth. If so, it would be indistinguishable from, say, 20/20...