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...police videotape. The Los Angeles Times reported today that in April, police had taped bystanders in the area where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray was killed by a bomb made by the terrorist. The man in question, who hurried away when he realized he was being photographed, bears a slight resemblance to the police sketch of the bomber, which itself is based on a brief sighting in 1987. But police now say the unidentified man appears to be about15 years older than the bomber is believed...
...welfare and a control group of 1,429 who were not--the Rutgers team says there is "no reduction in the birthrate of welfare mothers attributable" to the family cap. The dissonance between O'Neill and Rutgers is largely explained by three factors: a general decline in births; a slight decrease in illegitimacy, perhaps imputable to the growing rage against bearing children out of wedlock; and, above all, a reporting delay predicted by independent researchers when O'Neill announced her conclusions late last year. "It seems that many women mistakenly thought they'd be cut off from welfare altogether...
Online porn certainly pays. Thomas' income last year topped $800,000, enabling the slight, shaggy-haired Californian to indulge in his two extracurricular passions: expensive cars and exotic birds. Subscriptions have more than doubled (to 7,000) since his arrest. Some of the newcomers aren't even bothering to download the dirty pictures; they seem to be offering their $99-per-year subscription fees as donations to the cause. The extra income will come in handy, since the Thomases' legal bills are approaching...
...time to ban the word peacekeeping, or at least to limit its use. As has been widely pointed out, peacekeeping is impossible if there is no peace to keep. It might be said with only slight exaggeration that peacekeeping works only when it is not necessary -- in other words, when enemies have more or less agreed to stop fighting. In such situations, Blue Helmets can provide the final impetus toward peace and supervise established arrangements, as happened in Cyprus, Mozambique, Cambodia, the Sinai and elsewhere. But it cannot work in a cockpit like Bosnia, as U.N. officials themselves warned three...
...long ago I was at a gala dinner to mark an important anniversary. There were 50 Heads of State present, perhaps more, who came to honor the heroes and victims of the greatest war in human history...A slight chill went down my spine, for I could not help observing that one table had been singled out as being special and particularly important. It was a table for the big powers...The architect of that seating arrangement...was not guided by a sense of responsibility for the world, but by the banal pride of the powerful...