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...myth that the innocent should not fear the American courts. DNA tests seem to allow authorities to identify killers with certainty. And highly publicized trials such as those of O.J. Simpson and the police officers who beat Rodney King confirmed the belief that verdicts which seem to be incorrect only favor the defendants...
...presenting the new program, Jiang, 71, was careful to pay rhetorical obeisance to Mao Zedong and insist that the government would continue to "oppose bourgeois liberalization." He never uttered the politically incorrect word privatize, explaining that the new shareholding system is simply a modern form of "public ownership" that "can be used both under capitalism and under socialism." But few were fooled by the verbal acrobatics. "It's a deep change," says Wang Shan, a political commentator in Beijing. "The industrial worker who used to rely on the state will be thrown into the marketplace...
...like Washington, because the city covers three area codes and its information systems don't "talk" to one another. There's still some work to be done. Earlier this year, a request for Squaw Valley, the famous ski resort in California where the 1960 Winter Olympics were held, produced incorrect numbers from all over the region. One operator finally got close, providing a number for the Olympic Village--something that has not existed for 30 years...
Your review of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm [BOOKS, June 23] recounted a dramatic sea story but was incorrect in some facts. I am the owner and captain of the sailing vessel Satori, which your reviewer said sank in the fierce 1991 storm off the East Coast. In fact, before evacuating the vessel, I lashed the helm, sheeted in the storm jib and checked the compass. Seven days after my crew and I were rescued, I had Satori pulled off the beach in Maryland. Her bilges were dry, and there was no structural damage. Since then, I've sailed...
...Reagan project?...I would say Vietnam was the biggest thing that won the cold war..." The conversation shifted but Maher's mind didn't. Later he cut off one of his other guests, turned back to Heston and intoned, "Vietnam. You don't think Vietnam... " The host of Politically Incorrect (ABC late-night Monday-Friday) was worked...