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...business, the other for political e-mails on laptops owned by the Republican National Committee. The twin systems were supposed to keep politics and government separate, but hearings have revealed that crucial conversations about the U.S. Attorney firings were conducted on RNC laptops. The White House says that an unknown number of e-mails were deleted from the RNC servers...
Correction: An earlier version of this story mistakenly reported that the White House had confirmed the deletion of 5 million emails from RNC servers. The White House has said only that monthly purges of the RNC email system from 2001 to 2004 resulted in the deletion of an unknown number of emails sent by White House staff via the RNC's system. Spokeswoman Dana Perino has said that emails may also have been deleted off the White House internal server, inadvertently, and that she could not "rule out" that as many as five million emails are missing from the default...
...course, statistically, they probably are not the most respectable college students on the planet. And Caldwell is correct to conclude that she cannot, from available data, ascertain their moral character. But that would be true of any people unknown to Caldwell. Why, in the case of Dave Evans, Reade Seligman, and Collin Finnerty, is it appropriate to speculate that they might be “sketchy?...
...WHEN HE WAS AN unknown foreign policy wonk in the Kennedy Administration, Warren Wiggins wrote an impassioned treatise on the promise of Kennedy's still nascent Peace Corps, urging its leaders to fight to make it more than just a small agency to generate good publicity. On reading it, Sargent Shriver, the Corps's first director, who was then trying to define the agency, distributed the memo to his staff and fired off a 3 a.m. telegram demanding that Wiggins meet with him the next morning. Within four weeks, an Executive Order gave birth to the Peace Corps. Wiggins...
...assuming that an unknown murderer won't leave the scene and keep shooting people - something almost no murderer does - is different from assuming that a person who has long been identified as a threat, as Cho had, won't hurt someone. The fateful decisions that cost the lives of 30 more people at Virginia Tech weren't made on Monday morning; they were made in the previous 18 months...