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...billion in charity money is chump change compared with the cash that will flow out of government coffers. There is no limit to the federal fund, but the tab is likely to be triple the size of the charity pot. And while charity funds are doled out to a vast pool of people, including businesses hurt by the attacks, the government money will go exclusively to the injured and to families of the deceased...
...magazine editor, I wasn't all that surprised to read Roger Rosenblatt's take on historian Stephen Ambrose's brush with plagiarism [VIEWPOINT, Jan. 21]. The vast amounts of information available on the Internet provide endless opportunities for free "cut-and-paste" material. In one year, my publication caught three writers who had lifted--almost directly--Internet information for use in their stories. One rather well-known writer had the audacity to appropriate an exquisite passage from the works of Isak Dinesen and weave it into his own story--unattributed, of course. Plagiarism never fails to induce a feeling...
...during the decade of wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. The charges are a litany of persecution, extermination, murder, torture, inhumane acts, wanton destruction, deportation and forcible transfer. They accuse Milosevic, as the "dominant political figure" in Serbia, of orchestrating a "joint criminal enterprise" to cleanse non-Serbs from vast swaths of territory to leave an ethnically pure nation...
...absolutely asinine (Cartoon, Feb. 8). I wish Grolemund would wake up to the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world willing to die in order to inflict damage on the United States. If America stopped fighting this war now, we would be leaving the vast majority of terrorists free to hijack planes, blow up buildings and create weapons of mass destruction...
Unlike other nations, the U.S. and Canadian teams have been training together since the summer. In fact, the vast majority of U.S. players have been together for two years...