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...Others looked past the politics and questioned the soundness of Cheney's argument. "This is his place in history, and he's probably concerned with that," said Representative Jane Harman, chairwoman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence and Terrorism Risk Assessment. "But he's wrong on the facts." (See the top 10 unfortunate political one-liners...
...Jane Eyre?...
...life, Sara Jane Olson was a doting, upper-class soccer mom who drove a Plymouth minivan and was a dynamite gourmet cook. In another, she was a terrorist-and a totem of the age of violent radicalism that erupted during the 1970s. Olson - nee Kathleen Ann Soliah, the infamous Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive - was released Tuesday from a California state prison, seven years after pleading guilty to participating in a deadly bank robbery and planting pipe bombs under police cars...
...Soliah was linked to both crimes, but vanished before a Sept. 1975 FBI raid that netted four of her conspirators. She was indicted in absentia the following year; by then, she had resurfaced in Minnesota under the Sara Jane Olson. While working as a fraternity house cook, she met her future husband, medical student Fred Peterson. They married in 1980, bore three children, and settled in an ivy-covered stone house in St. Paul...
...Sara Jane Olson has become a symbol of particular kind of politics, a Rorschach test of personal feelings about the 1960s. My sense is her supporters are still very much behind her, while the people who quickly found her guilty haven't changed their minds either." Peter Erlinder, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law (Minneapolis Star-Tribune...