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...theater," lamented William Webster, former head of the fbi and a member of the White House security review committee that recommended closing Pennsylvania Avenue as well as a dozen other measures to tighten protection. Angry people seeking notoriety of all degrees find the stage they want at the White House. For years peaceful protesters have sometimes camped across from the White House, but the rising stridency of the disaffected and the real terrorism in the U.S. have changed the environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MAGNET FOR ODD INTRUDERS | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...another Whitewater development, the Washington Times reports that in the fall of 1993,then-Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbellmade seven phone calls to U.S. Attorney Paula Casey in Little Rock after government regulators sent her criminal referrals about a savings and loan with ties to the Clintons. Some of the calls, says the paper, came after Hubbell had recused himself from the investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ALLEGATIONS ABOUT HUBBELL | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...anti-Semitic tracts from the early twentieth century. In what New York Times columnist Frank Rich has called a 'bait and switch,' Robertson quotes almost verbatim from these works, leaving out of his own work the glaringly obvious anti-Semitic remarks that permeate such rightly forgotten books as Nesta Webster's 1922 World Revolution: Plot Against Civilization...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoffs, | Title: People of the Books | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

According to Charles Sullivan, executivedirector of the Historical Commission, 22 Harvardprofessor John White Webster, who was tried andconvicted in 1850 of murdering, dismembering andincinerating George Parkman in the famousCommonwealth vs. Webster court case...

Author: By Jennifer . Lee, | Title: Protests May Defeat Sheraton's Parking Lot | 3/22/1995 | See Source »

Perhaps we would be more enlightened about the position of the United Ministry by redirecting our attention to Webster's second definition for cult: "a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious." The factor that currently differentiates the religious groups recognized by the Ministry from cults is that the groups have been around for a while--long enough, at least, not to disturb the current theological balance of power...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: United Ministry's Monopoly | 3/17/1995 | See Source »

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