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...Mitchell and Stutchbury's offices. "Most of the time the paper has a clearly enunciated line on the issue," he says. "Occasionally there's a twist in an issue, but it all gets debated out." If the leader is the paper's soapbox, the opinion page is its sparring ring. Choosing columnists and commentators to spark or review national debates, page editor Tom Switzer says he runs his choices past the editors, who "sometimes have an editorial angle they would like reflected on the opinion page." Surrounded by stacks of journals and back issues, Switzer says claims of a focus...
...like a fan-forced oven. But there's no wind 60 m below, where the flat bowl of the crater is still and stifling, almost steamy from the moisture trapped in the sinkholes and fractures beneath the sand. The inside face is steeper. The rocks slip and clatter, startling ring-tailed dragon lizards that jut their jaws at the intruder in seeming defiance. A balancing hand placed carelessly into the spinifex needles is rewarded with a dozen tiny dots of blood; peripheral vision catches the thick brown tail of a snake gliding face-high a meter away. This...
...meanwhile in germany ... Busy Signal Economy Minister Wolfgang Clement invited anyone who found the new 16-page welfare benefit claims forms too complicated to give him a ring. Days later, he admitted that his office was "completely paralyzed" by phone callers who were referred to a government hotline. Maybe Clement's staff was having problems completing the forms...
...Holiday Inn. "It was not love at first sight," she recalls. But Edwards persisted and won her over with his sunny outlook on life. In July 1977 they married at a small Chapel Hill church with no air conditioning. Despite vastly improved finances, Elizabeth still wears the $11 ring that John slipped on her finger that day, and they still celebrate each anniversary the way they spent the first one: by dining at Wendy...
...anticrime campaign that turned a governmental backwater called the Bureau of Investigations (the Federal came later) into the modern FBI. The killings also inaugurated a rollicking two-year carnival of bank robberies and kidnappings carried out by men like "Baby Face" Nelson and "Machine Gun" Kelly, men whose nicknames ring a bell but who, it turns out, we never really knew...