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...says all the wrong things--then he says all the right things. In some eyes he is merely a brash, Porsche-driving, bungee-jumping populist politician. In others he is a racist and an apologist for Nazism. He is unfairly vilified and misunderstood--or he is just plain bad. What is certain about the zig-zag course of Jorg Haider's right-wing ideology is that last week it brought him and his Freedom Party into a coalition government in Austria--and left the 14 other member countries of the European Union in a state of indignation. As Haider...
...relationship wasn't "a conscious anti-Harvard decision, it just plain happened," she wrote in an e-mail message. The proof? Her current boyfriend is a fellow Harvard student...
...death is dredged up and his name is dragged, ever so delicately, through the mud by the defense. As it was in Simi Valley, Calif., where a jury with no black members acquitted the cops accused in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, the defense strategy in Albany is plain: say the cops were justified, and blame the victim. Talk about the fear that enveloped the four members of the ?lite street-crimes unit, each armed with a Glock semiautomatic pistol loaded with 16 bullets, as they confronted Diallo, 22, a street vendor who stood all of 5-foot...
...Harvard's Ivy League counterpart, Brown University, many student group leaders contend that the school is indeed "hiding" its speech code--in plain sight...
When Rosemary Clooney first heard Come On-a My House, she was underwhelmed. "I thought the lyric ranged from incoherent to just plain silly," she recalls in her engaging memoir Girl Singer: An Autobiography (Doubleday), written with Joan Barthel. But Clooney soon changed her mind when the playful song catapulted her to stardom. "I'd gone from being just another girl singer to a full-page photo in LIFE, from 'Rosemary who?' to a household word," she marvels...