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...procession of ranking Shin Bet officials have testified in secret before the Shamgar Commission, named for the retired Supreme Court justice who heads it. The assassin penetrated security to shoot Rabin at point-blank range, so close, one witness said, that "Rabin felt the gun before he felt the bullet." The Israeli press has been filled with leaks disclosing testimony of incompetence and bungling. But it was the revelation that Shin Bet had a mole inside the extremist movement that most grievously wounded the agency. Although the government refuses to confirm the charge and Avishai Raviv, the leader...
...Paul Volcker, banker Pete Peterson and others.) Then he devoted much of the remaining time to fuming about his mistreatment aboard Air Force One. "This is petty," Gingrich allowed. "I'm going to say up front it's petty ...but I think it's human." He pumped a final bullet into his foot by admitting, "That's part of why you ended up with us sending down a tougher [stopgap spending bill...
...years ago, the concept of privatization--in which a for-profit company takes over the management of some, or all, school functions--seemed like it might be a magic bullet for the nation's ailing, bureaucratically entrenched public schools. Now it appears that the champions of privatization may have seriously underestimated the challenges--political, organizational and financial--of such radical change. Christopher Whittle's highly touted Edison Project has only four schools in operation. Education Alternatives, Inc., based in Bloomington, Minnesota, has signed no new clients in more than a year. Its contract to manage an elementary school in Miami...
That arrangement was disrupted when he was 14 and two men from the project staged a shoot-out in front of the bedroom Marshall shared with his mother. Fascinated, "like any dumb kid would be," says Marshall, he dashed outside to see the action and narrowly escaped a bullet. His mother, Marshall recalls, was "very, very upset. It was the idea she couldn't keep us safe." For the next two years, Marshall lived with his grandfather, a proud, hardworking janitor for 40 years, who, Marshall says, "taught me more about being a man than any other man I have...
...WORLD HAS SEEN IT ALL BEFORE: a cease-fire is signed, the guns fall silent, hopes rise. Then somewhere in Bosnia a sniper's bullet or a mortar round or a tank attack sheds blood, and war begins again. Countless times since the start of the wars of Yugoslavia in 1991, a truce has been declared. Each time it has collapsed. Last week U.S. diplomats tried again, negotiating a cessation of hostilities that could take effect as early as Tuesday. But in contrast to the many failures of the past, there is a chance this one could last, clearing...