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...want to say personally and directly I'm sorry ... This was an error made in good faith." DAN RATHER, CBS news anchor, during an on-air apology in which he said the network could no longer vouch for the authenticity of documents that supported a 60 Minutes report on President Bush's service in the National Guard...
While first vehemently defending the documents, last week the network’s brass—including Dan Rather himself—issued statements admitting that the documents were of questionable authenticity, if not questionable content. Apparently, the memos included evidence that Bush’s commander was pressured to “sugar coat” the president’s profile and cited other blemishes on Bush’s record; however, after obtaining the opinion of numerous experts, it appears that the memos were most likely written on a typeface not available on the antiquated typewriters...
Said newcomer Dan Nguyen, who watched from the stands with a groin injury, “[Compared] to college tennis, my game is rather raw, so to speak, so just practicing and training with these guys [is helpful...
...report last week, the Boston Globe zeroed in on a document showing that before Bush moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 1973 to attend Harvard Business School, he pledged to register with a local unit. In 1999 his spokesman Dan Bartlett told the Washington Post that Bush had indeed done so. Bartlett told TIME last week he had misspoken. Bush never registered locally. But he did not have to, Bartlett now claims, because the military's central registry in Denver knew his whereabouts. It remains unclear, however, what exactly the registration rules were at the time...
...Doval’s 86 tackles and 4.5 sacks will fill in nicely for the departed Lhotak. Quarterback Pat McDermott will likely fail to even approach Mike Mitchell’s MVP status, but he won’t have to, as Penn returns first-team All-Ivy wideout Dan Castles and first-team running back Sam Mathews...