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...helped build into an international brand. "After 33 years on the air, 23 of them with Disney, the studio has decided to take the program in a new direction," he wrote. "I will no longer be associated with it." Ebert's announcement arrived only hours after co-host Richard Roeper, of the Chicago Sun-Times - his on-air companion since 1999 - announced that he too would be leaving At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper; his last weekend on the show will reportedly...
More Police for Los Angeles New Republican Mayor Richard Riordan of Los Angeles announced plans last week to hire nearly 2,500 officers over the next five years and increase the number of officers on street beats...
Science Nobelists The Nobel Committee favored gene research this year, awarding the prize in Medicine to Briton Richard Roberts, 50, and M.I.T.'s Phillip Sharp, 49, whose studies of the structure of genes led to new theories about how creatures evolve and why genes go awry. Half the Chemistry award was won by Kary B. Mullis, 48, who created the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as a means of copying fragments of DNA. The other half went to Michael Smith for related discoveries...
...found guilty with the words of a hanged defendant on the pedestal: ''The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.'' Let's hope, in your continuing coverage of this newest ''bombing conspiracy,'' that those words do not become prophetic. Richard L. Huff Keithville, Louisiana...
...Norquist pointed out last year, Richard Nixon used this strategy with great success at the end of the Vietnam War. "He ran in '72 as the guy who was leaving, and [Democratic candidate George] McGovern decided he wanted to surrender," Norquist said. "Leaving beat surrendering." In the coming months, the political landscape is now primed for McCain to attempt the same argument...