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In an indication of what was to come, the founder of the New York Times’ 1619 Project penned a lengthy racist screed attacking all white people in 1995. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead essayist on New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, wrote a letter to the editor in Notre Dame’s The Observer stating that “the white race is the biggest murderer, rapist, pillager, and thief of the modern world.”

Palestinian activists have hailed a decision by SodaStream International, an Israeli-owned soft drink company, to close its controversial factory in a settlement in the occupied West Bank, calling the decision a victory for the campaign for boycott, disinvestment and sanctions.

A shocking new TV documentary will reveal how hundreds pet dogs are being stolen every day in Vietnam for the lucrative dog meat trade. Unreported World shows disturbing evidence of how dogs are stolen, force-fed, kept in cramped cages and slaughtered for meals. Here, reporter Nelufar Hedayat exclusively reveals the horrors she witnessed.

Many of the schools Mr. Brandon describes are education-free zones, where students' eternal obligations—do the assigned reading, participate in class, hand in assignments—no longer apply. The book's title refers to the fact that only 30% of students enrolled in liberal-arts colleges graduate in four years. Roughly 60% take at least six years to get their degrees. That may be fine with many schools, whose administrators see dollar signs in those extra semesters.

Legendary former world champion Arturo Gatti, 37, has reportedly been found dead inside a beachside flat he was renting at the Hotel Dorisol of Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil . . .

WASHINGTON--Arizona Senator John McCain eked out a narrow victory in the Republican Party's caucuses in the northwestern state of Washington, the state party chairman announced late Saturday. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee earlier Saturday defeated McCain in Republican presidential primaries in Louisiana and Kansas. McCain, 71, a Vietnam war hero, is far ahead of his opponents in the delegate count and is the party's presumptive 2008 presidential standard bearer, though he faces opposition from core Republican conservatives. With 87 percent of precincts reporting in Washington state, McCain led with 26 percent of the delegates, against 24 percent for Huckabee and...

<p>Seattle Times: Mitt Romney has five strapping sons, and not one of them has ever served in the military. When asked about this in Bettendorf, Iowa, the Republican presidential hopeful said that "one of the ways my sons are showing support for our nation is helping to get me elected." He noted that his boy Josh had driven a Winnebago to all of Iowa's 99 counties — all 99 of them!</p>

Their McCain pile-on would not be so egregious if only the White House -- and the perks of politics -- were at stake. With 165,000 troops serving in Iraq and 26,000 serving in Afghanistan, Republican voters must guard more than their party purity. They have to vote -- and at times hold their tongues -- with an eye on what is most important: Iraq. As public support for the war has eroded, it has been disheartening to watch Democrats, who once supported the war, drop the ball on Iraq. Now, to watch Republicans bloody McCain, when they should be concentrating...

In 1987, the United States rejected an amendment to the Geneva conventions that would have conferred prisoner of war status on terrorists. The Washington Post and the New York Times applauded the decision. “We must not, and need not, give recognition and protection to terrorist groups as a price for progress in humanitarian law,” editorialized the Post. Granting terrorists such recognition, the papers explained, would eviscerate a central purpose of the Geneva conventions: to safeguard noncombatants. By making the protections accorded to lawful combatants conditional on obedience to the rules of war—which forbid targeting civilians and hiding in the civilian...

I don't usually talk about politics in my journal, but I just can't help it in this case. This CBS forged memos thing is just absolutely hilarious and sickening at the same time. I've been glued to the computer over the past few days reading everything there is to read. I've been very interested in all of the technical explanations and the many examples of comparisons between the memos, including the exact match between one of the memos and the exact same thing typed in Microsoft Word and the inexact match between one of the memos and the exact same...

. . . Though the question has hardly been conclusively answered, the consensus of opinion among interested parties seems to be that neither an Executive nor a Selectric could have produced these memos. My purpose here is not to debate the relative merits of either of those typewriters; that discussion is happening elsewhere. Rather, I want to take a moment to consider the dark horse candidate, the one piece of equipment that is widely believed to have been capable of producing a document similar to these memos, but that has been dismissed as being so improbable an alternative as to...

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I’m no fan of the man from Modesto. But it was troubling to see Gary Condit being hounded by the cable news shows into taking a polygraph test and then trashed for using his own polygrapher, a retired FBIman. Even J. Edgar Hoover knew that the polygraph wasn’t any good for detecting deception. He dropped the test. The polygraph was invented in 1915 by a Harvard man called William Moulton Marston, who claimed that his clunky little gizmo could detect lies by measuring blood pressure. Marston’s main claim to fame derives not from his machine, but from a doodle he ...

WHAT CONCEIVABLE justification could there be for former president Clinton, on his last morning in office, to have pardoned fugitive financiers Marc Rich and Pincus Green?Indicted in 1983 in an oil trading scheme in which the government said it had been bilked of $50 million, the two fled to Switzerland, where they have ever since avoided trial. Their lawyers have argued that the charges against them were legally deficient . . . . .Click Here For Full Text

U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White last night blasted some of the pardons and sentence commutations issued by departing President Bill Clinton, charging they compromised justice and raised "significant law-enforcement concerns." The cases singled out by the Manhattan federal prosecutor include those of: * Commodities trader Marc Rich and his partner, Pincus Green, who skipped to Switzerland in 1983 after being indicted on charges of evading $48 million in income taxes. The Swiss refused to extradite him. * Weather Underground radical Susan Rosenberg, who was convicted in 1984 of taking part in a bungled 1981 armored car robbery in Rockland County ...

WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton's most stunning pardon went to New York Democratic fat cat Denise Rich's ex-hubby Marc, a financier on the lam for 17 years and wanted by the FBI for $48 million in tax evasion plus "trading with the enemy." Marc Rich is accused of striking a 6 million-barrel oil deal with Iran in 1980 while Iran was holding 53 Americans hostage and was under a U.S.-imposed trade embargo as a terrorist regime. The FBI's "International Fugitives" bulletin, which was still on the Justice Department's Web page last night, offers an unspecified reward for Rich's capture and said ...

o one said that the end — for it is the end — of the interminable electoral dispute between Al Gore and George Bush would be pretty. And like everything else in this sorry affair, it turns out to have been ugly. Pundits everywhere had hoped that this case could end with a unified showing in the United States Supreme Court so as to preserve its legitimacy and to promote that of the winner of the election, now George Bush. Instead we got a literal potpourri of decisions that can only confuse an electorate that has grown weary of this ...

WHAT does George W. Bush think he's doing, hiding away on his ranch in Crawford while Al Gore and Joe Lieberman go on a full-scale public-relations offensive that may be having some impact? The Texas governor is behaving in a fashion distressingly similar to his conduct in the week before the Nov. 7 election, when he took a victory lap around the country and wasted precious time in California while Gore relentlessly cut away at his once-comfortable lead. That behavior was itself distressingly similar to Bush's bizarre decision in February to take the weekend off just before the New Hampshire ...

WHAT does George W. Bush think he's doing, hiding away on his ranch in Crawford while Al Gore and Joe Lieberman go on a full-scale public-relations offensive that may be having some impact? The Texas governor is behaving in a fashion distressingly similar to his conduct in the week before the Nov. 7 election, when he took a victory lap around the country and wasted precious time in California while Gore relentlessly cut away at his once-comfortable lead. That behavior was itself distressingly similar to Bush's bizarre decision in February to take the weekend off just before the New Hampshire ...

BACKSTAGE. In Florida's courts. What you do not know: Governor Brother Jeb has been battling his state's Supreme Court a year and a half. All seven justices were appointed by Democratic governors. Two months ago he intensified his grievances by saying the court does not respect the will of the voters. Tensions grew and Republican state lawmakers tried unsuccessfully to strip some of its powers and appoint two new members. Theoretically, justices are above petty emotions. But if the GOP has, in fact, made them mad, the GOP might wish, at this time, they hadn't. Four current members joined in ...