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...doing at the scene. "Everyone involved knows they were there," he said, and well, Army ops are verboten on domestic soil. Hardly the sort of thing that should put antigovernment types? fears to rest. But then again, maybe all this ?- which Coulson says he started because "we were in error" about whether tear gas was used ?- is the FBI?s way of letting the truth out in small, non-incendiary batches...
...only a single paragraph, but Furrow's error-riddled written statement to police that day spoke volumes: "I am a white seperatist. I've been having suicidial thoughts. Yesterday I had thoughts that I would kill my ex-wife and some of her friends then maybe I would drive to Canada and rob a bank... Sunday I was feeling suicidial and cut my left index finger to the bone... Some times I feel like I could just loose it and kill people...
...satisfying, if slightly chauvinistic tale, but experts in human evolution have known for years that it is dead wrong. The evolution of a successful animal species almost always involves trial and error, false starts and failed experiments. "Humans are no exception to this," says anthropologist Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, "no matter what we like to think...
...some way, a life ended in youth may be superior to a prolonged existence subject to revisionism and conspicuous error. Death turns "potential" into realization; what one could have done becomes in effect what one did. If the outpouring of sorrow at Kennedy's death were driven by his family name, by his boyish, bouncy manner with the public, or by his good looks alone, one might be reasonably churlish in putting it down to counterfeit emotion. But the more one learns of his works, the things he accomplished with his time and money--the practical good sense of them...
...Strauss said financial aid officers failed to catch the error because the correct tuition figures showed up on their computer screens--they were simply omitted from printed statements...