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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In the wake of the suicide of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, Pentagon officials and lawmakers are asking whether Admiral Michael Boorda deliberately wore Vietnam combat decorations he knew he was not entitled to wear. Arizona Senator and former Vietnam POW John McCain came to the admiral's defense and said Boorda could have made an honest mistake. But others in the military suggested that such an error was inconceivable, particularly for a man who had run a naval personnel office for years. Boorda shot himself in the chest Thursday soon after learning that a Newsweek reporter...
...move toward hyphenation has been a very different kind of struggle for Asian-Americans; it has been, arguably, a fight for the legitimacy of the "American" in the name rather than for the primacy of the "Asian." Asian-Americans have had to combat perceptions of them as profoundly foreign, as culturally alien to (white) America. "Oriental," from this point of view, was an essentializing term that incorporated not just ethnicity but mentality, even for the American-born...
Finally, though, unity became outdated. The evangelical population, although slower than the rest of the country to adopt the post-Vietnam adversarial spirit, caught up and produced a generation for whom, Noll says, "ideological combat has become de rigueur." The movement's energy, once generated by the fervor of Christian witness, appears now to flow more from the red-hot political engagement of such Christian Right warriors as broadcast executive Pat Robertson; Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, his protege; and the less renowned but perhaps more influential James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family. Weakening the Graham clout further...
...other crime news, efforts to combat a fire at the Brattle Street Crate & Barrel furniture store took an unexpected turn Tuesday afternoon when workers discovered some money in a utility entry port...
...more than a dozen fire trucks and approximately 65 firefighters had arrived to combat the hard-to-reach blaze, but at 3 p.m. the firefighters were still having trouble locating the source of the fire because of the heavy smoke...