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That instinct for opportunity put him in the Basketball Hall of Fame, and it may have been at work again last week. The New Jersey Democrat announced that he will retire at the end of next year from the Senate, where he has spent a third of his 52 years, and that he is weighing the idea of making a bid for the White House as an independent candidate. That alone would have been enough to throw both political parties momentarily off balance. But when Bradley also revealed-almost offhandedly-that he had phoned Colin Powell and was trying...
...little justice. Indeed, the persistently ad hominem character of his essay only fortifies the impression of an intellectual culture too coarsened to be much worth supporting. Much more than the future of two federal agencies is at stake. STEPHEN H. BALCH, President National Association of Scholars Princeton, New Jersey...
...full-scale invasion of Japan, actually saved Japanese lives is completely irrelevant. After 3-1/2 years of war, President Truman's duty as Commander in Chief was very clear: to end the war quickly and save as many lives as possible . THOMAS E. TELL JR. Somerville, New Jersey Via America Online...
...Jersey Senator Bill Bradley-a former New York Knicks basketball star, Rhodes Scholar and all-around Democratic deep thinker-said he would not seek re-election in 1996. Calling the U.S. political system "broken," the respected Bradley added that he had grown disillusioned after three Senate terms. "Neither political party speaks to people where they live their lives," he declared. Although Bradley said he would not challenge Clinton in the 1996 Democratic primaries, he did not rule out the possibility of running as an independent...
...daughter of a jazz musician, the New Jersey-born Lafferty originally sought a more placid career than her father's by attending Southwestern University School of Law, where Simpson trial prosecutor Marcia Clark had graduated 16 years before. "I knew after a year or so that lawyering was not for me, and I dropped out," she explains. "Clark hung in." After working as an assistant press secretary for a New York state senator and then as a newspaper and free-lance journalist, she started with Time as a Los Angeles stringer in 1988. Pre-O.J., she contributed to eight...