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...more likely--and in a way more disturbing--that he acted alone. The real question is, How many other single white supremacists are out there, blessed by the doctrine of Christian Identity and fueled by hatred and the pursuit of the Phineas priesthood? The Rev. Richard Butler of Aryan Nations told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer last week that Furrow had probably been motivated by "the war against the white race." Furrow himself said as much to the authorities. "You can say he was sick, but [the supremacists] gave him a focus for his sickness," says veteran cult watcher Rick Ross...
...skeleton does include many bones that will help White's team answer the much more important question of how Ardipithecus got around. Paleoanthropologists believe that bipedalism was the first significant modification separating our ancestors from the great apes. By studying the bones and fossil footprints of A. afarensis (Lucy and her line) as well as those of half a dozen other australopithecine species, scientists already knew that our ancestors walked upright long before they acquired other human traits--and that bipedalism gave them a huge edge...
...Sunday talk shows are crammed with senators and pundits calling for full disclosure. After all, said Orrin Hatch on "Meet the Press," the American people are a forgiving bunch, so if George W. Bush has anything to tell us about past cocaine use he should "just answer the darn question and get rid of it." Gary Bauer, Dan Quayle and Tom Daschle also dutifully hit the shows to push for a tell-all. One exception: James Carville, who argues in TIME this week that once you start answering these questions there's no way to get out of it alive...
George W. Bush's press tactics have taken a hit. First it was the stonewall, vowing never to dignify questions about his admittedly "irresponsible" past (except ones about, say, adultery, that he could answer with certainty in the negative). Then the no-comments got angrier, and the press got hungrier, and on Wednesday in New Orleans the wall of privacy came tumbling down. Asked by the Dallas Morning News ? they win the trip-the-candidate prize ? about whether Bush would require that his appointees answer the drug-use question for FBI background checks, George W. bit. "As I understand...
...there is another worry: influence peddling. "Whenever any mob pulls down this kind of money, you have to be concerned about its possible political influence," says TIME's William Dowell. Especially when the mob in question is based in a country where capital is flying out of the country at hyper-speed and allegations of kickbacks and corruption permeate the government all the way to the office of President Boris Yeltsin. Those suspicions have led to speculation that Yeltsin's ongoing game of Whack-a-Mole with his cabinet is an attempt to ensure that a friendly, non-prosecutorial government...