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DIED. AL LEWIS, 95, actor best known as the cigar-chomping Grandpa on TV's The Munsters in the mid-'60s; in New York City. Lewis, who decades after the show ended regularly appeared in character as the Munsters' vampiric patriarch, was also a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show and a cantankerous 1998 Green Party candidate for New York Governor. He lost...
...mid-September a Danish author went on the record as saying he had problems finding illustrators for a book about the life of the Prophet Muhammad. The [eventual] illustrator insisted on anonymity. Translators of a book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali Dutch politician who has been critical of Islam, also insisted on anonymity. Then the Tate Britain in London removed an installation called God Is Great, which shows the Talmud, the Koran and the Bible embedded in a piece of glass. To me, all those spoke to the problems of self-censorship and freedom of speech, and that...
...program was never kept entirely under wraps. Congressional leaders had been made aware of the program soon after it began and the Justice Department reviewed the program internally in mid...
...part of the administration’s public relations offensive and its efforts to mollify congressional concerns, Gonzales agreed in mid-January to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee...
...shot that hovered on top of the rim for a split second before falling through the hoop, giving Cornell (9-11, 4-2 Ivy) a 79-77 lead with 2.4 seconds to play.After inbounding the ball from under the Cornell basket, the best Harvard could manage was a futile mid-court heave from junior guard Ko Yada. As the shot fell harmlessly short and the final buzzer sounded, a group of jubilant Cornell fans rushed the court to congratulate Collins and his teammates. The stunning turnaround prevented the Crimson (12-7, 4-2) from accomplishing its first road sweep since...