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...through - constitutes a lowering of the bar or an enlightenment of philosophy. In the age of push-button wars and untold desk jobs, isn't the Army just being smart by being patient? Or is a 10 percent failure rate - from serious injury or mental incompatibility, usually - an insult to the supposed test of mettle that boot camp was once supposed...
...Bozell, a conservative critic of liberal media biases, has taken out newspaper ads comparing Gumbel's insult to the racist remarks that got Jimmy the Greek fired from CBS years ago. Gumbel, says Bozell, is guilty of religious bigotry. If he is not fired, then at the very least, Gumbel should apologize for what he said. Neither Gumbel nor CBS has done...
...Bozell makes his usual point about media bias. It seems a little off, however, that he should indulge in pious victimology (painting Knight as the victim of Gumbel's religious intolerance). In a better world, Bozell would straightforwardly return the insult. He might paraphrase Groucho Marx's line: "Gumbel looks like an idiot. He talks like an idiot. But don't get me wrong. He really is an idiot." Instead, Bozell has mounted a campaign that, in essence, accuses Gumbel of a hate crime...
...appeal against the ruling by two lower courts upholding the government decision to recognize his father as his sole legal representative and therefore to send him home, paving the way for Elian to leave when the injunction against his departure expired at 4 p.m. And moderate House Republicans added insult to injury Tuesday by securing agreement from the congressional leadership for a relaxation of restrictions on selling food and medicine to Cuba, a move that while limited in its own terms marks the first major breach in President Kennedy's economic blockade of the island...
...taking shape. A dozen boys have gathered on a miserably hot Saturday afternoon. They've set up a video camera, loudspeakers and a wrestling ring. Steve Toth, 16, provided the yard. But his mom Colleen has retreated indoors. She'd rather not watch as the teenagers punch, kick and insult one another, as they do most Saturdays...