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...fact the timing of the outrage, both long term and short term, raises doubts about everyone's sincerity. Daily and then hourly come new disclosures of old incidents that seem to confirm the beliefs suggested in Lott's remarks. Each new item is a nail in his coffin. But these incidents were publicly known at the time they occurred and have been no secret since. Just as Lott did, the entire Reagan Administration openly supported Bob Jones University in its claim for charitable tax status despite its rule forbidding interracial dating. There is a rarely acknowledged random element in what...
...Paradise Hotel in Mombasa just as bombs exploded there, killing three of them, or the passengers on the charter flight from Mombasa to Tel Aviv who barely escaped death by surface-to-air missile. Following the horror of the Bali bombings in October, the attacks in Kenya confirm that tourists are now in the terrorists' cross hairs. Soft targets, that euphemism of the month, seem to be softest when they're wearing shorts or sinking a few brews...
...have a timing problem with the possible war on Iraq. By making Saddam our priority we will confirm to al Qaeda their belief that the U.S. is making war on the Islamic world...
...research pokes at the eternal nature-nurture debate: Is it genetic destiny or a person's behavior that makes for a long life? Deiana--who turns 60 in February--has a personal interest in his research. His team is combing through church records in central Sardinia to try to confirm reports that a man who died in the early 1900s had reached the all-time-record age of 124. His name? Voche Deiana...
...evidence of Iraq lying. Although the Bush administration insists that the onus is on Iraq to prove that it has disarmed, once Iraq has made its declaration the onus will fall onto the U.S. and Britain to prove Baghdad is lying by pointing arms inspectors to evidence that would confirm Washington's charges...