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...presidential-residential sites" or the many other facilities where they had been denied entry in the past. The debate has homed in on Saddam's "palaces"; there are dozens of them--some vast compounds, according to Bill Clinton, as big as the District of Columbia--and the Iraqis sometimes pin that label on any facility they want to keep closed. In fact, many other areas, including the bases and barracks of the intelligence services and the Republican Guard, are suspected of harboring materials that Iraq promised to give up under the truce agreement...
Sound a little too convenient to pin the Gardner heist on a couple of guys who've been planted? Sure it does, and the FBI understandably wonders if Connor is trying to take the heat off the real thieves or simply con his way to freedom. But Connor, who lives by a strict code of criminal conduct that is essentially honor among thieves, says you help comrades in distress. By telling what he knows, maybe he can help spring his buddy Billy Youngworth, the other con who says he can get his hands on the stolen paintings--if authorities will...
With a "Harvard Parent 2001" pin stuck in a shirt reading "Taiwan NOT part of China," Yih-Yih Lin left his family behind during a Freshman Parents Weekend event Saturday morning and stood alone in front of the Science Center...
...codes, PIN codes, tracking numbers and confirmation codes: we live in a sea of irrational numbers. The artist formerly known as Prince now goes by a cryptic glyph, and the most famous shoe company on the planet advertises itself with a swoosh. And even as we pride ourselves on our exfoliating identities, our names seem ever more beside the point. The handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese, for example, was perhaps most significant as the disappearance of a culture of zany hybrids--Sir Run Run Shaw, Philemon Choi and Freedom Leung--into one where there are 4,000 Zheng...
...story is already part of contemporary lore, a wrenching lore to break our hearts: the disappearance of a six-year old boy named Adam on July 27, 1981; the discovery of his severed head 16 days later in a Florida drainage ditch; the inability of the legal system to pin the crime on anyone. Two TV movies have been produced on the ordeal of Adam's parents, John Walsh and his wife Reve. But only recently did Walsh--the no-nonsense host of the Fox TV show America's Most Wanted--decide to write down his own story. From...