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Then the FBI revealed that it had suddenly found 3,135 documents about the Oklahoma City bombing investigation that McVeigh's defense lawyers had never seen, and Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped the clock. The problem was not that there were doubts about McVeigh's guilt; he has admitted that. This was not the discovery of some sinister plot, Justice officials insisted--just human error, maybe a computer glitch. But it was another bomb exploding nonetheless. Ashcroft looked drained and solemn as he announced that McVeigh's execution would be postponed for a month so his defense lawyers could review...
...morning after the Boston Harbor meeting, the committee convened in its conference room at Loeb House to decide on a president. As the giant grandfather clock in the room chimed the passing hours, the committee debated the candidates and their respective merits. Who would bring what to the table? They kept coming back to Summers...
Ironically, the slumping job market could help rekindle employee loyalty, which had seemed as old-fashioned as a time clock when workers could bounce around with impunity. Accounting major Katherine Stiveson plans to start a $41,000-a-year job with Deloitte & Touche this summer after she graduates from California State University at Northridge. And Stiveson vows to work extra hard. "I'm going to make sure I'm doing my job well and stay an aggressive employee," she says. "I don't want to be laid...
Serbian snipers at work in the hills above Sarajevo a few years ago kept themselves dosed with slivovitz around the clock (as extra insurance against inhibitions of conscience) and potted away at women and children darting through the city under their cross hairs. Collateral damage is supposed to mean a mistake, but this killing was deliberate, focused and recreational. War is a great and terrible permission. A spirit of satanic play shoots a jolt of lethal impulse through the trigger finger. This is absolute power, on a person-to-person basis. It tends to corrupt absolutely. Degenerate violence takes...
...news more interesting now than it used to be? Or less? The inundation of "news" delivered round the clock by the cable channels has a repetitious, downmarket quality, and leaves an impression of stupidity, of history gone to the shallows. When I was young, there was always war or the threat of war - world war, Cold War, Korea, Vietnam. It may have been just as stupid, but it was real history, anyway. It had size. Today we have occasional school shootings (which we cover as if they were the Normandy invasion), or Robert Downey Jr. getting arrested for drugs again...