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Perhaps it is fitting that the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" speech falls on Easter Sunday. After all, many had believed Reagan's grand plan for a system that would render Moscow's nuclear-tipped missiles "impotent and obsolete" died along with the Soviet Union. But "Star Wars" has been resurrected, and has been standing guard over America's skies since 2004. But the more than $120 billion spent over 25 years to build the "Star Wars" missile shield has not left the U.S. less vulnerable to attack - some would argue that it has done exactly...
...heavens with his genial smile. "Free people must voluntarily, through open debate and democratic means, meet the challenge that totalitarians pose by compulsion," he said in that speech 25 years ago. He was speaking of the Soviets. But he just as easily could be speaking today of the "Star Wars" boosters who have made building the missile-defense system into a memorial for President Reagan, regardless of the changes in the real threats facing the nation since he spoke those words...
...Express Newspapers group - owner of tabloid papers the Daily Express, the Sunday Express, the Daily Star and the Sunday Star - agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a claim that the papers had defamed them by alleging that the couple themselves were responsible for the death of their 4-year-old daughter. The daily outlets on Wednesday also published page-one apologies to the McCanns, as their Sunday stablemates are expected to do as well, admitting to the "utter falsity" of a series of articles published between late last summer and February...
...McCanns themselves proved adept at keeping the story of Madeleine's disappearance on front pages throughout last summer. They secured an audience with the Pope, and enlisted celebrities like soccer star David Beckham to make appeals for the public to help find Madeleine. But the story went into overdrive early last September when Portuguese police investigating the crime named the McCanns as official suspects - a status they still officially hold...
...were the worst offenders, printing a steady - and in circulation terms lucrative - flow of arch but unsubstantiated innuendo. "There was a drip, drip, drip of negative splash headlines," says Charlie Beckett, a media expert at the London School of Economics. "Syringe that 'Knocked Out Maddie' Found," claimed one ludicrous Star headline, while the Express screamed: "Find the Body or McCanns Will Escape." Some stories in those papers alleged the McCanns might have sold Madeleine because of financial woes, while others among the Express titles claimed the couple was involved in partner-swapping orgies...