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The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, a.k.a. the Bill of Rights, are the nation's most basic guarantees of individual liberty. Over the past two centuries, however, five of the original 13 states have managed to lose the handwritten copies of the Bill of Rights sent to each...
Probably the most embarrassed over the missing text is Pennsylvania, which will be host of the bicentennial celebration of the charter's ratification in Philadelphia next year. "We have no idea what happened to our copy," says the state's head archivist, Harry Whipkey. Next-door Delaware can't provide...
Richard Berendzen won't be getting his $1 million severance package from American University after all. But everything considered, he can hardly gripe. Berendzen resigned as president of the Washington institution last April after making repeated obscene telephone calls from his office to a woman in Virginia. Last week, following...
Over the years no social issue has looked so easy and proved so hard to resolve. It looked easy because merely building houses is simpler than, say, curing a deadly disease or cleansing a polluted ocean or handing out hope to the poor. But it turned out to be a...
When the street people first appeared in force a decade or so ago, they inspired shouts of dismay and calls for action. Cities hurriedly opened shelters; churches converted their basements into temporary dormitories; soup kitchens doubled their seating capacity. When the problem only grew worse, city officials across the nation...