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...informed the Malaysian government, though no one else, that he was a spy. In the expatriate community, he made little impression except as a genial neighbor and a leader of the Eagle Scout troop that included son Jeremiah. During Nicholson's two years in Kuala Lumpur, one of the main jobs for American intelligence agents was tracking leads in the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. The suspected mastermind of the bombing, Ramzi Yousef, had passed through Malaysia. While in Kuala Lumpur, Nicholson had got agency permission to meet with a Russian agent by telling...
This came out while we were discussing the Cafe's profound understanding of breakfast. I had introduced that subject after Molly was kind enough to allow me a taste of what she'd ordered as a main course--a dish that I would associate with breakfast but the restaurant carries on the menu throughout the day as "Potatoes from Heaven...
...should be abundantly clear to everyone that bigotry still flourishes in many parts of corporate America. Ironically, that's one of the main reasons so many big companies opposed California's newly adopted Proposition 209, which effectively repeals government affirmative-action programs in the state. Cynical executives know that a passionately proclaimed commitment to equal opportunity is not only good public relations but also a tough defense against bias suits. They understand too that big investors shy away if a company's image is tarred by ugly charges of bigotry. Texaco's stock fell $3 a share in the first...
...Baker contended that 6 billion-to-1 DNA odds still represented reasonable doubt. And certainly the plaintiffs' case suffered a blow when Kato Kaelin admitted he had initially testified for the prosecution in the vain hope that with O.J. behind bars, he'd be allowed to move into the main house...
...intelligent people still spend their time discussing fairy tales written by ignorant men about 2,000 years ago? Genesis' main lesson is to emphasize man's dismal failure in trying to create God in man's own image. The book's only relevance today is to the Jewish people, whose culture produced Genesis. Apart from its value as literature, Genesis has no meaning for the rest of us. As long as we keep giving this mythology a divine image, it will be impossible for modern man to transcend the dark ages we still carry in our minds. RAFAEL A. MIRABAL...