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...linking the paper to ETA has been formally aired, but press reports suggest that the government's case rests largely on several documents, seized in raids on ETA commandos in the early '90s, in which ETA members expressed preferences for certain editors at the paper. The Madrid daily El País reported last week that the government also had a letter from ETA to a Basque businessman telling him to pay his "revolutionary tax" directly to "a Basque cultural outlet such as Egunkaria." Otamendi and his supporters reject the charge that his paper pursued ETA's agenda. A subsidy...
...other words, Fred Rogers knew that childhood, which we misremember as carefree and innocent, is a time of roiling passions, anguish and terror. His show, the first version of which debuted in 1963, was his professional way of doing what he had done as a boy in Latrobe, Pa., when he played with puppets to calm himself after hearing scary news reports. And perhaps one reason his death touched adults so deeply is the feeling that Mister Rogers left us when we could especially use someone to teach us to manage our children's fears...
...comes from the Middle East, and because some oil-rich princes have funded Islamic extremists, SUV owners are supporting terrorists. (Got it?) Some of the anti-SUV people take their mischief very seriously: on New Year's Day, three Fords were set ablaze at a dealership north of Pittsburgh, Pa. There have been at least six other such attacks since...
...only traditional liberals who are fretting about all this gas consumption and pollution. Even some evangelical Christians have joined the anti-SUV chorus. A group called the Evangelical Environmental Network, based in Wynnewood, Pa., has produced TV ads with a provocative tag line: "If we love our neighbor, and we cherish God's creation, maybe we should ask, 'What would Jesus drive?'" The late-night comics went berserk, but Evangelicals take seriously the idea that Christ should be at the center of daily decisions. Says the Rev. Richard Cizik, a conservative minister and registered Republican...
...used to the idea. An exhibition of 420 Incan artifacts--354 of them from Machu Picchu--curated by Burger and Salazar, opened last month at Yale's Peabody Museum, where it will remain until May 4. Then it begins a two-year tour of Los Angeles; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Denver; Houston; and Chicago. The exhibit makes for riveting history--even if it's not Indiana Jones. --Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York