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When Lane took over the Chicago Housing Authority in 1988, the ghetto projects he oversaw were rightly considered the nation's worst. The police estimated that violent gangs controlled 120 of the CHA'S 167 high-rises. "People were sleeping in bathtubs to avoid gunfire," Lane says, "and until that...
Still more disturbing is Perot's abiding belief in paramilitary, and often secret, action that is, to put it politely, not overly finicky about staying within the confines of the law. He denies suggesting that Dallas police cordon off sections of minority neighborhoods and conduct house-to-house searches for...
Twenty years later, much about the exhaustively investigated Watergate affair remains a mystery. In a two-hour cbs documentary, WATERGATE: THE SECRET STORY, to be aired this Wednesday, Mike Wallace puts the scandal in perspective and elicits new facts from participants. Howard Hunt says a goal was to uncover illegal...
Hundreds of thousands of dollars, 200 interviews and one 171-page report later, the Senate failed to uncover the sources who leaked Professor Anita Hill's sexual-harassment charges against Judge Clarence Thomas to the press. During the probe, investigators had tried to get journalists to name names, but the...
All Coleman has left to argue is his "actual innocence." It is the one legal path -- albeit a narrow one -- that might enable him to circumvent the habeas corpus guidelines that now essentially restrict capital felons to a single federal appeal. Kathleen Behan, his new attorney, has been relentless in...