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Among Dr. Jack Kevorkian's many annoying habits is his insistence on comparing himself to civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. What a joke. Comparing Parks or...
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VICTIMS IN THE WAR BACK HOME
Wars on crime have collateral damage too. That was not the theme of U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno's speech to the National Press Club last week, but it might as...
PERILS OF INDIFFERENCE — AND OF ACTION
Events have an ironic way of overtaking the best-laid plans of the Clinton White House. More than a year ago First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton invited Elie Wiesel, the distinguished...
AFTER PROPOSITION 209, A NEW RACIAL OUTREACH EMERGING IN CALIFORNIA
Two years after Proposition 209 banned affirmative action at the University of California system, that state's news about college opportunities for minorities has not been all bad. "One thing you...
KOSOVO 101
Those were the good old days when we parents fretted over how we were going to explain President Clinton's sex scandal to our children. Explaining Monica Lewinsky was a breeze...
GUESS WHO IS DOING ADS AGAIN?
Have you heard that O.J. Simpson is doing television ads again? No, this is not a joke, although everyone to whom I have asked that question thought at first that...
PENALIZED FOR BEING WELL-PREPARED
In an era of serious scandals in various sports, the Jamaican spelling bee controversy stands out as a good example of what happens when you have too much of a...
GOP PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS RUNNING AN ISSUE-FREE CAMPAIGN
Elizabeth Dole's declaration of a presidential exploratory committee has the nation buzzing again about whether we are "ready" to elect a woman president. That's the wrong question. The more revealing...
DUMBING DOWN STUDENT ATHLETES AGAIN
For a while, at least, it looked as though student athletes might be required to behave like students. Now that's in jeopardy. A federal judge has thrown out the National...
WHEN IN DOUBT, CHECK IT OUT
NBC News has taken a lot of heat in recent weeks for withholding an interview with Juanita Broaddrick, the Arkansas nursing home operator who said President Clinton raped her. Critics...