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...theory factory, long dormant, was up and running again. TIME Justice correspondent Elaine Shannon says she has no reason to believe that the new version, in which the feds shot two pyrotechnic devices that bounced away harmlessly hours before the blaze started, is false. But for skeptics, the big question ?- why, after six years, are we just now hearing about this? ?- is irresistible...
...young man asked Bush during a campaign event in Iowa recently whether the candidate had used cocaine. Bush said he wasn't answering that sort of question. The questioner then asked whether candidates should be disqualified if such use occurred. Bush said no, "if they've learned their lesson." O.K., but what about the people in jail who may have learned their lessons...
There may be only two practical ways to deal with the question of privacy for candidates, and neither relies on the self-restraint of the press, since that is a forlorn hope. The first is the "let it all hang out" approach, in which the candidate answers every question, truthfully, and relies on the good sense of the people to weigh the importance of what is disclosed. There is good reason to believe, post-Clinton, that we have arrived at a time in which the public can sort out what's important and what is merely embarrassing. Do most candidates...
...approach is to say nothing about the sins of the past, and to let the public decide whether the stonewall is covering up some egregious mistake or is rather a healthy assertion of political privacy. This seems to be George W. Bush's current strategy, at least on this question. He has been quick to deny any marital infidelity and to admit earlier excessive drinking. It might be nice to think that a politician can decide where to draw the line on political privacy, but Bush is being naive if he thinks his silence will stop the questions...
...penalized for the color of their skin...or national ancestry." He recounted a revolting incident in 1934 when his black teammate, Willis Ward, voluntarily benched himself because the visiting Georgia Tech football team objected to competing against an African American. Ward's sacrifice, Ford wrote, "led me to question how educational administrators could capitulate to raw prejudice...