The collapse of the government's case against Wen Ho Lee last week
represents one of the greatest humiliations of a national newspaper in the
history of journalism. One has to go back to the publication by the London
Times of the Pigott...
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13 September 2000
Within the past two weeks, we've a report from the FBI on the "school
shooter" threat profile, which again strains to make a link between popular
culture and teenage mass murderers. We've had a report from the Federal
Trade Commission...
01 September 2000
The major political surprise of this summer was Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore’s selection of Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman as his running mate. Lieberman, a socially conservative Orthodox Jew, had first become widely...
01 September 2000
The greatest struggle of any oppressed group in a racist society is the struggle to reclaim collective memory and identity. At the level of culture, racism seeks to deny people of African, American Indian, Asian and Latino descent...
29 August 2000
In A.D. 193, the Roman Praetorian Guard murdered the Emperor Pertinax, and
proceeded to auction off the imperial throne to the highest bidder. Until
this year, the most strenuous emulation of this feat by the U.S. military
came in 1980,...
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