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...Vietnam will live on. Veterans of the war and of the antiwar movement may never entirely make peace with each other. In the year 2000, when they gather at conferences marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, they will still be arguing over Khe Sanh and Kent State, Tet and the Moratorium, just as old Union and Confederate soldiers relived and refought Antietam and Gettysburg well into this century, until they too had passed into history. That is the real bottom line on Vietnam: there is no statute of limitations. The war imposed a life sentence...
...Kent Weber, co-founder of the non-profit organization, said that his organization's primary message is respect. "If we can get people to respect an animal that we've been taught eats grandmothers, then hopefully this respect can be transferred to other humans...
...kind of clubhouse deal that irked even diehard Redskins fans, also known as taxpayers. 'Skins owner Jack Kent Cooke and Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder schemed to build a new football stadium in suburban Alexandria, for $160 million of Cooke's money and $130 million in public funds. Cooke would get his name on the building -- and the lion's share of the revenues. But with public outrage mounting, Wilder backtracked, asking Cooke for $40 million in concessions to keep the plan alive. Cooke's answer...
...flintworking techniques reached a level that was never surpassed. Like the Sumerians to the east, the Egyptians developed a writing system, though their hieroglyphs were pictorial rather than sound-based. They also invented rudimentary arithmetic and accounting systems. "It was a simple culture compared to what came later," says Kent Weeks, an Egyptologist at American University in Cairo. "But the quality of the work and variety of raw materials show it was in fact a fairly complex and sophisticated society...
Perhaps the owners have more mercenary motives. Like going where the money is. As one of half a dozen owners with a fortune in excess of a billion dollars, Jack Kent Cooke probably has enough money now. Cooke owns the N.F.L. champion Washington Redskins, but like many a Joe Lunchpail, he wants to move to the suburbs. Move the Redskins, that is, to a rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia. No matter that Washington doesn't want the 'Skins to leave and Alexandria doesn't want them to come. In a secret deal whose conspiratorial bravado would have set Boss Tweed...