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...scandals that have struck the administration of Ohio Governor Bob Taft have reached a new milestone: speculation that he should resign. Today Taft pleaded no-contest in Franklin County Municipal Court, and a judge ordered him to pay a $4000 fine after being charged with four misdemeanors for failing to disclose, as state law requires, golf outings paid for by others...
...horrific nature of their suffering that atomic weapons have not been used again. The staggering civilian death toll prompted democracies to do their utmost to avoid such "collateral damage" in later conflicts. Raymond Lloyd London Thank you for the oral histories of the U.S. servicemen aboard the planes that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I hope they know they are heroes. They helped end WW II and ensured that my grandpa and millions of other grandpas would go home instead of invading Japan. It was estimated that an invasion might have caused 1 million Allied casualties. There would...
...five-year affair. No criminal charges were filed against Sherwood after his mistress, who is now 29, called 911 and told police Sherwood had tried to choke her during a backrub. But she has sued the four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for $5.5 million, saying he repeatedly struck her, violently yanked her hair and tried to strangle her, promising after each incident never to do it again and begging her not to leave him. Sherwood, 64, has denied abusing the woman...
...unsettling enough that ABC anchorman Peter Jennings died of lung cancer just four months after announcing his diagnosis. Perhaps more distressing to the 90 million--plus smokers and former smokers out there was that Jennings swore off tobacco 20 years ago and was struck by the disease all the same. It's true that he had resumed smoking after the terrorist attacks in 2001, but he quit again. Can that first puff years ago start a fatal cascade of lung damage that can never be reversed? The answer...
...very moved by the oral histories of the U.S. servicemen aboard the planes that struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I hope they know they are heroes. They helped end WW II and ensured that my grandpa and millions of other grandpas would go home instead of invading Japan. It was estimated that an invasion might have caused 1 million Allied casualties. There would be a lot fewer dads and grandpas of ours around today had that taken place...