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FEDERAL OFFICIALS DISSEMINATED TO "COOPERATIVE NEWS sources" a blind memorandum stating that the "result of King's famous espousal of nonviolence was vandalism, looting and riot." The lapse from nonviolent discipline in Memphis freed the FBI from the inhibitions that the public's respect for King's conduct if not his message had imposed, and opened the way for character assassination on all fronts. By the next day, March 29, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover approved a second effort "to publicize hypocrisy on the part of Martin Luther King." The document whiplashed him as cowardly and violent, servile and uppity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Have Seen The Promised Land" | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...Council of Economic Advisors from 2003 to 2004. The plan was reviewed by the Office of the Chief Actuary at the Social Security Administration (SSA), which concluded that the plan would “easily satisfy the criteria for attained sustainable solvency,” according to a memorandum written by the SSA. Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics and Dean for the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87 praised the proposal. “It’s a fantastic thing that they’ve done,” said Cutler. “They?...

Author: By Alexander N. Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Social Security Reform Unveiled | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...only people whose credibility is at stake are people trying to invent issues out of thin air." STEVE SCHMIDT, White House spokesman, on Democrats questioning the integrity of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito after a 1985 memorandum surfaced last week in which Alito spells out his strategy for "overruling Roe v. Wade," which safeguards the rights of women in the U.S. to have an abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...Zhang said he received "a memorandum" from Beijing around midnight on Nov. 21, but didn't reveal the contents. He told officials to be ready for a disaster on the scale of an earthquake or a bird flu outbreak. At 2 a.m. on Nov. 22-presumably with Beijing's permission-Harbin put out a second statement alerting the population to the water stoppage. This time, the statement acknowledged that the chemical-plant explosion had "perhaps polluted the water" in the Songhua. This announcement seemed to calm residents, as did efficient logistics that ensured access to plenty of clean drinking water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind a Chinese Cover-up | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...domain names, Internet Protocol numbers, and country specific extensions (like .ca for Canada and .de for Germany). ICANN was founded in 1998 by the Clinton administration and operates, at least in theory, free from the interference of the U.S. government, although ICANN does have a “memorandum of understanding” with the Department of Commerce. ICANN’s activities, according to human rights icons like China and Iran, are an unconscionable infringement of other nations’ rights by the American corporate-governmental cabal. Of course China and Iran (and for that matter Tunisia, the aptly...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv, | Title: George WWW.Bush’s Internet | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

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