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...whether Admiral Michael Boorda deliberately wore Vietnam combat decorations he knew he was not entitled to wear. Arizona Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain came to the admiral's defense and said Boorda could have made an honest mistake. But others in the military suggested that such an error was inconceivable, particularly for a man who had run a naval personnel office for years. Boorda shot himself in the chest Thursday soon after learning that a Newsweek reporter would be questioning him about two "V's" he wore with Vietnam War campaign medals. "The V is more prestigious than...
Three innings later, the Crimson equalized the game on Woodfork's double. But Mason came in, and the only base runner the Crimson got in the next 2 2-3 innings was on an error...
...being son and heir, but it does include a figure who would one day be of interest to William Franklin Graham III. That is of course the prodigal son, who, responding to pressures that have gone unrecorded, abandoned the straight and narrow and squandered his money before seeing the error of his ways and throwing himself on his father's mercy, and God's. He once was lost, and then was found...
...Worker retraining. Another good idea--except Clinton wanted to force employers to create their own programs, on penalty of having to pay a new, mandatory 1.5% payroll tax. Political error! The tax threat exposed the attempted sleight-of-hand a bit too nakedly. It was never enacted...
...book The Jesus Papyrus seems to imply!) need be no more trustworthy than a later account. I am the author of The Apocryphal Jesus and was pleased to be correctly quoted in your article making the above point, but you inaccurately gave my last name as Lincoln. This error might tell us something about the historical value of contemporary reports. J. KEITH ELLIOTT Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Leeds Leeds, England...