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...presidential commission has called for the phase-out of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, the two special services that broadcast news behind the Iron Curtain for over 40 years. The group said the $207 million-a-year operations duplicate the Voice of America, the general overseas U.S. network. The recommendations contradict those of a previous Bush task force. The latest report also urges shutting down the Cuba-beamed TV Marti and skipping the start-up of a Radio Free China. Both have influential congressional backers...
OLYMPICS: Curtain's Up in Barcelona...
...bell of a stained-glass skylight in the auditorium, from the sculpted Valkyries riding across the proscenium arch to the encrustations of ceramic roses (each the size of a cabbage) on the ceiling, it takes decor beyond congestion; and yet, because it is also one of Europe's earliest curtain-wall buildings, framed in a steel grid, Catalan historians are fond of praising its "rationalism" -- which was also real...
...people are treated like cattle and not afforded any sort of privacy for the most intimate personal care. And then they say, "Well, we're worried about what happens between people in this place where you have no privacy." How easy it would be just to hang a shower curtain to give any one of us a little bit of privacy and human dignity, if that is the issue! There are so many very, very simple ways of dealing with what people perceive as being issues that probably are not. But it's the only way right now they...
...curtain came down for Warmus and Esker, the legal theater was just beginning for a Merrick, N.Y., teen indicted for attempting to murder -- you guessed it -- her lover's wife. Last week grand jury deliberations wrapped up in the case of the girl the press called Long Island's Lolita. Playing Humbert Humbert was Joseph Buttafuoco, a 38-year-old auto mechanic who had an affair with the young woman. Their relationship apparently soured, and the teenager became "obsessed with revenge," said Daniel Severin, a Nassau County police detective...