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Last week the National Archives released 800,000 pages of documents relating to the Kennedy assassination. The FBI report below describes a curious incident involving Lee Harvey Oswald, his wife Marina and Richard Nixon...
Perhaps the most curious fact about the Evening With Champions finances is the lack of oversight over them. It appears that quality of record-keeping varied widely from year to year, and the charity show, unlike many other student organizations which handle less money, was never incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation...
...bright and without clouds, the mountains flecked with snow, and mist hangs over the lifeless Great Salt Lake. In this old railroad town near Salt Lake City, the land of Latter-Day Saints has provided a curious backdrop for a latter-day carnival. The Lollapalooza tour -- a festival of determinedly edgy alternative music featuring ethnic food, political forums and 12 bands, including rappers Arrested Development and female grunge rockers Babes in Toyland -- has pulled into clean-living Utah...
...What we've seen again and again, when there's been a Watergate or there's been something else, is this curious mixture that includes the real zealots who believe they can repair the inadequacies of the democratic system by doing unofficial things. They think they're the heroes. Then you see the total misfits who need to take shelter in secret rooms and who actually get off being secretive...
...sweet conceit, taking into account both the curious new ways we make connections along our electronic highways and romance's age-old need to crank up passion by placing frustrations in true love's path. Given that many of the + traditional obstacles like class, ethnic and religious differences are readily overcome these days by enlightened people, it's smart to recognize that about the only thing left to distance people is, yes, distance -- good old basic geography...