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Berkowitz is currently an associate professor of law at George Mason University Law School. He also serves as a fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and directs a program on constitutional government in Israel...
...death syndrome. Along the way he discovers a children's book containing a rhyme that can kill when the possessor reads it to anyone or even thinks it in his or her direction. Having memorized the fatal lines, Carl now holds that power. So, it turns out, does Helen Hoover Boyle, a brassy Realtor whose specialty is selling haunted houses to unsuspecting buyers--there's good money in the high turnover--and who long ago began putting the lethal verse to her own uses...
...Among them: former Vice President Dan Quayle, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and ex-CIA and Pentagon boss James Schlesinger. True, there are also centrist Republican members, like Henry Kissinger. But the board has an undeniably hard-nosed tilt: seven of the 31 members have ties to the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previous boards had at least a few members with views sharply opposed to the incumbent Administration--Perle was on the board through Clinton's two terms--but this one lacks Democratic firepower. The sprinkling of Democrats includes token moderates and those, like former CIA chief James...
Take J. Edgar Hoover's name off the FBI building and rename it the Coleen M. Rowley Building. Then perhaps the people working inside it will follow Rowley's example. CYNTHIA L. KNIGHT Uncasville, Conn...
...gangbuster nemesis of "Baby Face" Nelson, John Dillinger, Ma Barker. The scourge of would-be spies and saboteurs... The stubbornly independent guardian of evenhanded law enforcement, highmindedly fending off Congressmen and Presidents who sought to use his agency for political purposes. J. Edgar Hoover deserved some of that billing, although it was overblown... [Now] Hoover is seen as a shrewd bureaucratic genius who cared less about crime than about perpetuating his crime-busting image... He was a petty man of towering personal hates. There was more than a tinge of racism in his vicious vendetta against Martin Luther King...