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...addition to lending his expertise to the opposition, over the years Whitehurst has dispatched hundreds of memos to the Justice Department, critiquing his colleagues' performance and accusing the FBI of a pro-prosecution slant in dozens of investigations. "Science," he says, "cannot be a whore to a political agenda." Last fall at Attorney General Janet Reno's request, Justice Inspector General Michael Bromwich assembled an international team of forensic scientists to conduct an exhaustive investigation of Whitehurst's charges. Though the report is not due until the end of this year, TIME has learned that it is likely to reject...
...essay by Krauthammer was certainly an eye-opener on the magnitude of media distortion in the U.S. How sad that we put our trust in a "free" press that routinely and overwhelmingly seeks to slant our perceptions, most particularly where Israel is concerned. Krauthammer is to be commended for his efforts to give us both sides of a situation, which is difficult enough without the arousal of undue sympathy toward a particular side by journalists (and their editors). PATRICE WELTMANN Buffalo Grove, Illinois Via E-mail...
...service-sector jobs have been taken from longtime black residents of the district by recent immigrants. He thinks the disparity can be alleviated if these old-line residents could get small-business loans. Rolle has a long history of civic involvement, but given the district's overwhelming Democratic slant, he will have his work cut out for himself in November...
...office and the new rooms we will be moving into, they would have seen that this move is not "costing" HAND resources, but is enriching them. After four hours of interviewing at least 10 people, it is scandalous that the only person found to support the reporters' slant was a non-member of HAND. We gave the reporters real news about positive changes in a program that hundreds of students dedicate their time to, but it was apparently not the story they wanted to tell. --Mandy H. Bigelow '97, co-chair of HAND
...minute hep cats, saying "Ain't I fine?" instead of "Now I'm the grandest tiger in the jungle!"). Lester and Pinkney also give the story--originally written in 1899 by a Scottish woman and set in India but with minstrel-like black characters--a specifically African-American slant. Marcellino's approach is the more conservationist. He has left the original's simple text as it was, merely replacing the characters' names with Indian ones and adding sweetly spare new illustrations...