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The Long and Frustrating Hunt for One of America’s Most Wanted (Psst: He’s Not a Terrorist)
James Bulger’s story reads like the plot of a thousand mobster films.
The Presidency: Exposure
“The Kennedy buildup goes on,” wrote James MacGregor Burns, a Williams College political science professor and John Kennedy's admiring biographer, in the New Republic. “The adjectives tumble over one another
Faith-Based Insurance: Christian Health Care Sharing
Correction Appended: May 29, 2010 Three years ago, James Lansberry faced the kind of health care crisis that has become all too common in the U.S.
Tylenol’s Miracle Comeback
A year after the poisonings, public confidence is restoredOne year ago last week, James Burke made a decision that will probably be studied in business schools for a long time to come. Going against the advice of Government agents and some of his own colleagues, the chairman of Johnson & Johnson decided to spend whatever millions it would cost to recall 31 million bottles of Tylenol capsules from store shelves across the U.S
Is Hummus the Next Guacamole? Middle Eastern Gets Mod
As one of the millions of Americans who don’t like falafel, I feel somewhat chagrined today. Like many of my countrymen, I made a series of mistakes, errors of perception that drove me further into the darkness
Two Mommies or Two Daddies Will Do Fine, Thanks
The strategies of religious and political extremists like James Dobson of Focus on the Family have become more nuanced of late.
Lawyers: There Is No Better Than Me
A few weeks ago, Lawyer Percy Foreman wearily confided to a friend that James Earl Ray would be his last client in a criminal case. From now on, said Foreman, he would confine his activities to only a few civil suits.
The Mortification of James Watson
Not very long after James Watson finished his Nobel Prize–winning work on the structure of DNA in 1953, he started firing off some eyebrow-raising comments about his fellow man: that fat people don’t get hired because they lack ambition; how sunlight is the source of the “Latin lover” libido; what he found distasteful in the appearance of his female research collaborator, Rosalind Franklin. But as the great geneticist slunk back to the U.S.
"A Moral Justification For War Exists"
THE ATTACKS of Sept. 11, 2001, sent religious people all over the world to their knees in prayer.