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Cincinnati, Ohio, police chief Thomas Streicher Jr. said he wanted his city to be a model of racial justice. Cincinnati could push beyond platitudes about racial profiling, he told the city council last month, and "get at what's in the officer's heart." Soon after, the council banned racial...
DIED. CHUNG JU YUNG, 85, industry titan who helped revive South Korea's war-torn economy with his founding of the Hyundai Group; in Seoul. Chung, whose company's cars and electronics embodied his country's "economic miracle," had seen his reputation tarnished in recent years through debt, an inability...
Even when you like the music you hear them listening to, there are reasons why it takes hard work to share music with kids. Pop-music turnover is faster than ever. The group that gets two or three successful albums in a row is harder to find. No sooner do...
Yet by Saturday afternoon, the promise of a full and fair count was over--with the unlikeliest of villains to blame. By a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, visibly splintered along ideological and partisan lines, ordered Florida to cease all vote counting until the court has a chance...
The man with what Brookings Institution fellow Charles Jones calls "one of the least attractive jobs in the world right now" is Senate majority leader Trent Lott. His power, never formidable in an institution famous for its decentralization, is more splintered than ever, with a large liberal minority and a...