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...students and budget travelers who first used Reykjavik as a stopover on flights to Europe--get hooked on the place and become regulars. "I've been here five times," says Karin Ciescik, 45, a New York insurance broker. "I'm a polar buff. I just love the cold." Jeff Warren, managing director of Britain's Windrush Management, chose Iceland for a company holiday. Why? "If we went to Tenerife, we'd just hang around on the beach and drink, mon, so we decided to branch out," says this burly, dreadlocked native of Jamaica after a day of snowboarding...
...quick review: In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that only three shots were fired - all from behind the President, all from the Texas School Book Depository, all from the bolt-action rifle of Lee Harvey Oswald. End of story. (Beginning of conspiracy-theory industry.) In 1979, an investigation conducted by Congress's House Assassinations Committee disagreed - a fourth shot, which missed, had been fired from behind a white picket fence on that grassy knoll. In 1982, however, a special panel of the National Academy of Sciences insisted the fourth shot was random background noise, probably static...
...None of which gets to the really juicy conspiracy-theory stuff, such as whom the shooter on the knoll was working for. But it's certainly not doing Earl Warren's legacy any good...
...computer monitor, mouse and keyboard were reported stolen from the Warren Alpert Building...
...which was passed at a time of surging deficits and required deep spending cuts to be enacted automatically if Congress failed to do the job. "The first time we pulled the Gramm-Rudman trigger, it went off. The second time we pulled it, it went off," former Senator Warren Rudman recalls ruefully. "The third time we pulled it, it misfired, and by the fourth time, they took away...