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...twisted fate decreed that the rest of us must abide these cantankerous old curmudgeons on Capitol Hill, thanks to the dullards who sent them there? And with those two entrenched Senators being favorite sons of their states, I can only shudder to think of what's to come. F. PATRICK BUTLER Innsbruck, Austria...
...modest doctor in an awkward position. "I am not seeking high posts," he told Al-Wasat, an Arabic magazine published in London. "But I will not evade my responsibilities." Bashar is, in many ways, a more impressive figure than was his brother, says British author and Assad biographer Patrick Seale. "Basil was a very physical man, very keen on dangerous sports like hang gliding, parachuting, fast cars," Seale recalls. "[Bashar] is much more reflective, much more thoughtful. Much more able to implement or pursue the political legacy of his father...
There are plenty of possible explanations, and no absolutes. One popular theory, vehemently denied by the commissioner himself, is that the police were told to keep their distance during Sunday's festivities; the last thing this department needs, in the wake of the police shootings of Amadou Diallo and Patrick Dorismond, is another well-publicized confrontation with minorities...
...Patrick's Day a couple of years ago, I found myself in the ideal spot to celebrate the occasion - the highlands of Papua New Guinea, as far from New York City as it is possible to be without the aid of a Saturn booster. My hosts lived in the Stone Age, perhaps a generation removed from head-hunting, but they seemed to me, on the whole, more civilized than those whey-faced, bleary tribesmen back in New York (some of my own savage people, long ago) who were busy honoring their particular heritage by vomiting in the gutters outside...
...death-penalty politics last January, when he declared a moratorium on executions in his state after no fewer than 13 death-row inmates were freed when new evidence cast doubt on their guilt. Then came Pat Robertson, the religious broadcaster, who called for a national moratorium. Next Wednesday, Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon will introduce a major bill in the Senate that would compel states to use DNA testing in all relevant cases. Also next week a highly touted study led by a Columbia law professor will report an "appalling rate" of error...