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DIED. RICHARD HELMS, 89, steely spy and former CIA director who vigilantly guarded some of the cold war's darkest secrets before being fired by Richard Nixon for refusing to embroil the agency in a Watergate cover-up; in Washington, D.C. Helms played a critical role in plotting the assassination attempts on foreign leaders (including Cuba's Fidel Castro) and overthrowing Marxist Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1971. Tall and dashingly good-looking, Helms mastered the art of spy craft at the wartime Office of Strategic Services before it became...
...article about a 10-year-old. Not just unusual, but disgusting." In February, Kathie Lee announced that she was leaving Live with Regis and Kathie Lee in part to shield her children (she also has a daughter, Cassidy) from the media; allowing her elementary-school-age son to embroil himself in a lawsuit should help...
...passed, will have three effects. First and most disturbingly, it will allow U.S. weapons, training and military hardware to fall into the hands of human rights violators abroad. Second, it will waste billions of U.S. taxpayers' dollars on policies with a history of failure. Lastly, it will embroil the U.S. unnecessarily in the hemisphere's worst internal conflicts. Not only will this bill fail to achieve its objectives, it will waste U.S. taxpayers' money while deepening the crises in democracy and human rights that afflict the countries where drugs are produced and transported...
...conflict between art and history is not at all necessarily bad. It can be poorly resolved, as in Anastasia, but it can also be the wellspring of a tremendous amount of creativity. Artists who embroil themselves in history should ask themselves whether they are doing so to comment on the history or if the history is merely serving as a convenient dramatic vehicle, easing the creative burden...
...story of how these groups clashed and ultimately settled their differences offers a glimpse into precisely the kind of grass-roots democracy the Founding Fathers might have envisioned--had they had the imagination to conceive that a rodent the size of a can of tennis balls could embroil Hutchinson in its most explosive animal-rights debate since last summer. (That was when a dog was accidentally dragged down Main Street from the back of a pickup truck.) The ruckus erupted earlier this year when the city decided that a patch of grass at the back of the fairgrounds was perfect...