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Officially, Coelho resigned for health reasons, and his maladies are real. He suffers from epileptic seizures, and checked into a Virginia hospital last week because of diverticulitis, an inflamed colon. Also, Coelho told a friend that an MRI had revealed a cyst on his brain, which may be the reason he has been suffering more frequent seizures. Tipper Gore and campaign manager Donna Brazille visited him last Tuesday; the next day, when Brazille called, Coelho told her, "It's not good...
Israeli and American officials had known for some time that Assad was ill. But the suddenness with which he died surprised nearly everyone, including Israeli intelligence. In northern Virginia, the reports of Assad's death came into CIA headquarters early Saturday morning. The agency's operatives in Damascus were reporting that top Syrian and Baath Party officials were spotted rushing to the presidential palace on a hilltop overlooking the capital city. By early morning Washington time, officials at the U.S. embassy in Damascus, who were working their own sources, had what they believed was solid confirmation that Assad was dead...
...scores in local schools. Even those schools that have posted gains say the success has come at a hefty price. Educators say they have had to dumb down their lessons to teach the often picayune factoids covered by the exams. A study released last month by the University of Virginia found that while some schools had boosted their performance on Virginia's exam, teachers had to curtail field trips, elective courses and even student visits to the bathroom--all in an effort to cram more test prep into the school day. Says the study's author, education professor Daniel Duke...
...felt like that was a big mistake," convention president Paige Patterson told reporters this week. "We're trying to set them back 2,000 years. We want to go all the way back to Jesus and the Bible." Liberal and moderate state conventions (including those in Texas and Virginia) will continue to squirm, Van Biema predicts, as the national convention slides irrevocably toward a more right-wing philosophy. And while moderate Southern Baptists are unlikely to execute a complete break from the national leadership, there are signs of internal schism, culminating in quietly defiant practices among moderates. "Many Southern Baptists...
These kinds of judicial atrocities have led to some remarkable conversions. Former Virginia attorney general William Broaddus, a Republican, used to prosecute capital cases. "It was part of our heritage and culture in Virginia," he says. Now he opposes them, after spending time with a death-row inmate he represented in 1996: "When you shake someone's hand, you start thinking." John DiIulio, the conservative crime scholar, has also changed his mind. His beef is that death row is a crapshoot because there is no logical relationship between those who commit capital crimes and those who end up facing death...