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Wanted: A Thoroughbred for 2012
The law requires that Americans elect someone President next year, but it’s become impossible to predict if either side can collect the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win. Both President Obama and the growing posse of aspiring Republican candidates appear weak and unfocused, more stumblebums than thoroughbreds.
Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart
The appalling truth is out, although a tantalizing portion of it vanished forever when Charles Stuart jumped to his death into the icy waters of the Mystic River.
The Congo: The U.N. Drives Implacably Ahead
Belgian Cement Worker Albert Verbrugghe was driving his wife and another woman down a quiet street in the copper town of Jadotville one day last week, when he suddenly heard the clatter of gunfire.
Obama Deficit Plan Is Sensible, but GOP Has Advantage
After exactly three months in office, President Obama called a Cabinet meeting to announce his first push for federal belt tightening. His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, had dubbed this initiative “the Dave project,” after the movie in which the eponymous presidential body double invites his accountant to the White House to slice waste out of the budget.
Eulogy: GENERAL NGUYEN NGOC LOAN
I won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for a photograph of one man shooting another. Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and GENERAL NGUYEN NGOC LOAN
African Migrants, Turned Away by Italy, Abused in Gaddafi’s Libya
The young Eritrean woman was exhausted, famished and dehydrated after spending four days in March lost in the Mediterranean Sea. She had been on a fishing boat with nearly 300 African migrants, crammed so tightly that she couldn’t move
Oral Roberts to the Rescue?
In 1987, television preacher Oral Roberts made a dramatic appeal.
Flight 253 and the Missed Signs of Terrorism
The 23-year-old son of a banker from Nigeria should have tripped every alarm in the global aviation-security system put in place after 9/11: He bought a $2,831 ticket for flights from Lagos to Amsterdam to Detroit and paid for it in cash. He left no contact information with the airline
10 Questions for Ira Glass
How do you go about finding the stories on the show? Clark Cogbill LITTLE ROCK, ARK