IS THE SUN FINALLY SETTING ON THE CIA?
A recently released CIA report on UFOs poses a credibility risk for the CIA. Like a similar report released by the Air Force last spring, the CIA's report has the...
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TRYING KIDS FOR GROWN-UP CRIMES
When you're talking to Bill Ayers, it is hard to believe the soft-spoken, bespectacled education professor is the same guy the FBI was chasing for 11 years as a dangerous...
SAVE CYBERSPACE, HOLD THE SPAM
SPAM! Spam, Spam, Spam, SPAM! Spam, Spam, Spam, SPAM! Spam, Spam, Spam, SPAM! Spam, Spam, Spam, SPAM . . .! That monotonous marching song will be familiar to fans of...
POLISHING COSBY’S IMAGE
Somewhere in Bill Cosby's brain, as the woman who claims to be his daughter was convicted of trying to blackmail him, I imagine he was feeling relief mixed with remorse....
CRIME REMAINS AN AMERICAN OBSESSION
If I didn't know better, I might think the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace was a conspiracy by television news to get its audiences back. With no major war,...
RACE STILL IS A BLACK-WHITE QUESTION
President Clinton said in speeches last week to the NAACP in Pittsburgh and the National Association of Black Journalists here that he expects his recently announced initiative on race to...
INNER-CITY BLUES AS TAUGHT BY THE KIDS WHO LIVE THEM
While most of the country was visiting Mars, thanks to a robot space probe, I was visiting the ghetto, thanks to a couple of clever young fellows with tape recorders....
NEW RACIAL CENSUS, NEW CONFUSION
Even before President Clinton's task force came up with a new plan for counting the races in 2000, confusion already was setting in about what it might decide. A biracial...
WHEN `NO NEWS’ IS . . . A RELIEF
Don Imus, syndicated radio and cable TV talk show host, invited me to appear on his morning radio program recently. Then he admitted on the air that he didn't know...
A `LOVING’ FORM OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN PILOTS
When I think of women aviators, I think of the famed Amelia Earhart. Or Bessie Coleman, the daring Chicago-based African-American stunt pilot of the 1920s. Or the 1,076 "WASPs," Women...