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There has been much talk recently about "hate crimes" legislation in light of recent activities nationwide. Such legislation may or may not be necessary. Every citizen of the United States should be guaranteed equal protection and due process under the laws, but no one group should be given special privileges...
...Citizen Kane," when journalism tycoon Charles Foster Kane receives a telegram from his Latin American correspondent insisting that reporting on Cuba might produce some nice prose poems but that "There is no war," Kane responds with a smirk, "You provide the prose poems, and I'll provide...
Back in the heyday of "yellow journalism," the likes of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst (upon whom "Citizen Kane" was based) were not afraid to embellish or even invent news when things were slow. They learned that the truth often got in the way of the stuff that sells newspapers. People preferred to read about fabricated news rather than pedestrian real-life stories...
Everyone is missing, or does not want to see, the real problem Starr's investigation has caused: Clinton has made the U.S. the laughingstock of the world. America's enemies now have no fear of the U.S. If I were an American citizen, I would be extremely worried when traveling abroad. DAVID F. CRADDOCK Cowplain, England...
...President Vaclav Havel was in Washington last month, he told MADELEINE ALBRIGHT that he had a novel idea: when his current term ends, she should become President of the Czech Republic. As Secretary of State, Albright is nominally in line for the U.S. presidency, but as a foreign-born citizen, she cannot hold the office. Not so in the Czech Republic, where Albright was born. The idea of Albright's succeeding Havel, who has been found to have lung cancer, was being touted by Havel's friends in a Czech magazine called The New Presence. "It isn't a completely...