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...There is also evidence, according to U.S. intelligence officials, that since the New York Times broke the story, the terrorists have modified their behavior, hampering our efforts to keep track of them-but also, on the plus side, hampering their ability to communicate with one another...
Worfel, the former Coushatta leader who was so dazzled by Abramoff five years ago, says he hasn't heard from him since around the time the first reports of the scandal broke and the lobbyist was fired by his firm, Greenberg Traurig. "Jack was calling and said, 'Man, I need help.'" Even after everything he had taken from the tribe, he still wanted more. Worfel turned him down, but Abramoff kept calling, leaving eight or nine more voicemail messages. Finally, Worfel did the only thing he could do against a man as persistent as Jack Abramoff...
...home, according to Brian G. Williams, an associate professor of history at UMass-Dartmouth, who attended the meeting. But Williams said that when he visited the student’s house, his family knew nothing about the supposed agents or their visits. Confronted by Williams, the student broke down and admitted that he had made up the entire story. Williams said he had no idea why the student made up the account. “In this case, I’m heartbroken that my trust in the student led to this,” he said in a telephone...
...harness the drum major instinct." He sketched the biography of supreme Christian sacrifice with clear echoes of his own turmoil, noting that the "tide of public opinion turned" against Jesus when he was still young. "They said he was an agitator," said King. "He practiced civil disobedience. He broke injunctions." Jesus was betrayed by friends, cursed, killed and buried penniless in a borrowed tomb--but now after 19 centuries "stands as the most influential figure that ever entered human history." For all the worldly gloss about a "lord of lords," King found nothing royal about Jesus: "He just went around...
...Edgar Hoover approved a second effort "to publicize hypocrisy on the part of Martin Luther King." The document whiplashed him as cowardly and violent, servile and uppity. "Like Judas leading lambs to slaughter," Hoover confidentially advised news contacts, "King led the marchers to violence, and when the violence broke out, King disappeared." A gossipy addition highlighted the place of refuge. "The fine Hotel Lorraine in Memphis is owned and patronized exclusively by Negroes," stated the propaganda sheet, but King had chosen instead "the plush Holiday Inn Motel, white owned, operated and almost exclusively white patronized." By April 2, Hoover formally...