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...rope line. She knelt and talked to the children, a bright-eyed American echo of other countries' princesses. No matter what designs lay behind those pictures, what sympathy they were designed to generate, there were some undeniable realities. The night before, she had had to watch her father admit to something hideously painful. It may not have been a surprise to her, but that makes it no less of a tragedy. Her ability to come back and fight for him, to walk with him and smile for him and throw herself before the cameras aimed...
...Institute. "But most kids don't have this inability to control themselves in the real world." The 20 or so U.S. kids under 10 who are arrested for committing homicide each year are abnormal, in other words, but they're abnormal in a much more childish way than we admit when we pretend they had criminal intent and charge them with murder...
...Laden's lair is probably secure as long as he maintains his cozy relations with the Taliban and with radical Islamists in next-door Pakistan. U.S. officials say photos from their spy satellites have spotted increased traffic in and out of bin Laden's camps, and they admit they don't know what to make of it. For bin Laden, it could simply be business as usual...
MODERN LIBRARY Judges of Top 100 novels admit flaky selection procedure produced spurious results...
...upshot seems to be that Congress will forgive anything Clinton will admit to publicly except obstruction of justice -- mainly because they think the rest of America will too. That is a sad measure of a president, and how little we have come to expect from...