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Seamus Heaney--with whom future students will wish to converse after he too achieves the celestial pantheon--said something in support of this retrograde activity recently. Referring to elegies he had written to the poets Joseph Brodsky and Ted Hughes, he remarked, "At a certain age, the light that you live with is inhabited by shades... The death of people doesn't banish them out of your consciousness...
Better still, make it up. Recently the Pulitzer prizewinning historian Joseph Ellis, who has every reason to be content with a distinguished intellectual life, admitted he had fabricated a history of having been a paratrooper in Vietnam. Sadly, crazily, he gave himself a past to amend some self-perceived deficiency...
...hunters didn't have to use "pointy sticks" to kill the megafauna. They might well have employed the techniques of pre-Columbian hunters in North America who killed large numbers of bison by herding them over cliffs. The Stone Age megafauna may have quite literally been "driven to extinction." JOSEPH J. CARVAJAL Brevard...
...Joseph Pistone was the subject of the movie Donnie Brasco and the CBS television series Falcone
...Koreans, but the family were allowed to leave for Southeast Asia, purportedly for health reasons. They later went on to South Korea. China's face-saving decision came ahead of next week's vote on Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympics. PHILIPPINES Keeping Silent Deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada declined to answer charges of perjury from the country's anticorruption court. The court entered a plea of not guilty and set the next hearing for August. 2. The former movie star will this month face a much more serious charge of economic plunder. PAPUA NEW GUINEA Curfew Prime...