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...What Thompson, Venables and the never identified six-year-old have in common is not just their youthful violence. All of them seemed to understand, at least formally, that what they were doing was wrong. That's what the placement of Bulger's body on the tracks suggests; and the prosecutor of the six-year-old says three doctors concluded that the boy was able to discern right from wrong in the abstract. Similarly, in 1989, after nine-year-old Cameron Kocher shot Jessica Carr, age 7, with a rifle after an argument over Nintendo in their hometown in northeast...
...hasn't yet released its own damage assessment because of heavy clouds over the target area. Don't expect any dramatic reports: "Battle damage assessment is almost an oxymoron here," notes TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "This was a couple of tents and an obstacle course -- we probably improved the obstacle course." Still, destruction of the enemy's assets may not be the best measure of the mission's success: "Far more important here is the signal sent, telling terrorists that if they attack the U.S., they will be heavily targeted...
Shortly before John Glenn left Washington for his flight training, TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger and Washington correspondent Dick Thompson visited him in his Senate office for a wide-ranging discussion of space travel, politics and Glenn's historical legacy. Though apparently happy with where the nation's space program is going, Glenn seems less pleased with the direction in which its political system is heading...
...MARK THOMPSON, another Washington correspondent, has spent the past 20 years reporting on the U.S. military. But last October, when a former Pentagon whistle blower tipped him off to deaths by negligence in California nursing homes, the Pulitzer prizewinner plunged in and broke the story for TIME. His reporting also helped prompt the government to take action. Last week President Clinton ordered stricter regulation of nursing homes, and this week the Senate will hold hearings on the matter. Thompson says the hearings are an important chance for Americans to become more aware of the awful conditions in some...
...there a more blatant excuse to reel in movie stars, such as Emma Thompson and Mel Brooks (and therefore attract an audience), than the category of Outstanding Guest Actor...