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Mountain lions have nowhere else to go (we took care of that); they have nothing else to eat (we took care of that too). What options remain for them? Not surprisingly, other creatures don't think we are superior just because we can think and speak. Our superiority complex has led to destruction. JESSICA GLASS New York City...
Robert Hughes masterfully captures the spirit of motorcycling in his review of the museum exhibit of the big cycles in New York City [ART, Aug. 17]. As a 43-year-old emergency-department physician, I took a giant leap six years ago and made the transition from piecing bikers back together to straddling my own BMW R1100 roadster. These wonderful machines offer an escape for the soul and spirit, a place to relish life's victories and reconcile its defeats. But Hughes is correct: you'll have little use for one "unless you are prepared to go somewhat...
...Israel during the Yom Kippur holidays. Four days later, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. Over the next 10 days, Middle East and Persian Gulf nations organized a total oil embargo against the U.S. because of its support for Israel. And on Oct. 20, one day before the embargo took full effect, came the Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon ordered special prosecutor Archibald Cox fired, Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned in protest, and an honest-to-God constitutional crisis was born...
...first executions in its four years of self-rule when brothers MOHAMED and RAED ABU-SULTAN were killed by firing squad in Gaza City after being convicted of murdering another pair of brothers, MAJDI and MOHAMED AL-KHALDI, on a Gaza street. Their trial, in a secretive military court, took half an hour, and they were executed within 48 hours of the crime. The two families had quarreled after a different member of the Abu-Sultan clan was accused of gesturing inappropriately at an Al-Khaldi relative. Police say the family of the condemned men took...
...that the relationship was briefer and more sporadic than generally assumed: Clinton and Lewinsky had intimate encounters about half a dozen times, starting in December 1995 or January 1996 and continuing through April of that year, with one final tryst in February 1997. Currie, reporters are now being told, took the subpoenaed gifts at Lewinsky's request, not the President's. According to this account, Currie stopped by Lewinsky's apartment to pick up a box labeled DO NOT DESTROY, which the secretary stored under her bed until its contents were turned over to Starr. Though the scenario conflicts with...