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...marked contrast to Attorney General Janet Reno's swift admission of FBI error in last week's raid, ATF director Stephen Higgins refuses to admit to flawed judgment. Last week members of congressional investigating committees suggested either closing down the ATF's law-enforcement operations or merging the ATF, now a branch of the Treasury Department, with the Justice Department. Agency morale is devastated. Says Troy: "We have frustrated, hurt agents, involved in collective guilt. We're dealing with a highly traumatic situation...
CREDIT: From a U.S. survey of 992 adults and 506 high school students taken for the American Jewish Committee by the Roper Organization. Sampling error is plus or minus 4% and plus or minus 5% for adults and students respectively...
They don't like how a player can act as a role model for children, refusing to throw a tantrum in the direction of the umpire for every called strike or in the direction of the scorer for an error with which you don't think you should be charged. Ripken's most high-profilead campaign? Cal drinking milk...
...writing to correct a factual error I made in my discussions with the Undergraduate Council on Sunday night, which were the subject of an article in Monday's Crimson. General Colin Powell is apparently not the first African-American to be invited as Harvard's principal Commencement speaker. During the past 25 years, the speakers have included Barbara Jordan in 1977 and Ralph Ellison in 1974. Neil L. Rudenstine
...only wonder whether some law of laws will stand revealed some day at the end of the grudging trial-and-error process of science. The theory of everything, even if it existed, however, could not pretend to tell us what we most want to know. It could not tell us why the universe exists -- why there is something rather than nothing at all. And it could not tell us if our lives have meaning, if God loves...