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...generation that only dimly recalls him as the narrator of the 1960s TV series The Untouchables. A few days before the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Winchell wrote that the "most fateful hour of the most fateful week of history is at hand." Only a careful reader of the chapter notes will learn that the very next item in his column that day began, "Maxine Moore, one of the prettiest chorus girls in Lew Brown's big hit, Yokel Boy, is now in Chicago to apply for a divorce...
...more than that. Suwa had uncovered nothing less than a new chapter in the history of human evolution. He and his colleagues report in the current , Nature that the archaic molar, along with other fossils they found in the area on expeditions in 1992 and 1993, belong to a previously unknown species. This diminutive, humanlike creature walked the earth some 4.4 million years ago -- half a million years earlier than the oldest human ancestors ever identified. That stretches our family tree back almost to the era when humans and apes branched off from a single ancestor. In fact, says University...
Robb's diminution of the Klan's charter has not gone down well. "Thom Robb is a poor example of a Klansman. He comes off as a young Republican, not as a racialist," says David Neumann, 40, an auto-plant machinist who heads the Michigan chapter of the Knights. "He goes to great lengths not to say anything controversial that might alienate people from giving him money." In April, Ed Novak, born Ed Melkonian and an ex-lieutenant of Robb's, started a rival Klan out of Chicago. According to Klanwatch, based in Montgomery, Alabama, Novak's Federation of Klans...
...meet in Harvard buildings, and we don't claim to be the Harvard chapter," she said. "We're content to work within the rules...
...made a last-ditch effort to round up a filibuster-proof 60 votes for a moderate health package, but the GOP and a few opposing Democrats held firm. Mitchell also ignored a group of liberal lawmakers who wanted a stripped-down reform package that would cover children. The next chapter: November, when the Election Day blame game begins...