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...better part of a generation, both political parties have thrown money and laurels at the FBI for one reason: to stop crime. Under Clinton, while agency after agency saw its budget dwindle, the FBI's jumped 25%, to $2.9 billion. Congress paid for 3,600 new employees, new computers, new field offices. Law-and-order Republicans were there first, but Clinton and the Democrats joined in until there was simply no constituency that didn't see the FBI as the all-purpose answer to voters who routinely listed crime among their top concerns. For a nation whose greatest enemy...
...baffling murder? Or an elaborate, self-mocking suicide, with the locked-room angle thrown in to ensure prime-time coverage? Or could Izzi, a writer known to be fanatical about research, have been trying to find out how it felt to dangle by the neck outside an office window? In his pockets, besides a can of Mace, several hundred dollars in cash and a set of brass knuckles, were three computer disks. It has been reported that although the disks don't add up to a book and are unlikely to be published, they describe a scene almost exactly like...
...Arista album create the commotion or was it the result? Were these songs, judged to be the most 'danceable' of the year (whatever that would mean), or were they thrown together because Arista happens to own the rights to each of them...
This recklessness was further demonstrated by your photographer's request to photograph the burnt room, or at least the rubble from the fire thrown out the window. Yes, people want to see and know. The Crimson is a newspaper and must report the truth. But, it is a campus newspaper and must report it with compassion, discretion and the entire truth. A little more effort on the part of your reporter, editor and photographer, would have helped Ms. Kirk through this time rather than subjecting her to another disaster. --Jeffrey M. Goldfarb...
...Identical parts were used in the 1991-93 Dodge Caravan and Grand Caravan, Plymouth Voyager and Grand Voyager and Chrysler Town and Country minivans. This is the latest of several safety investigations for Chrysler's minivan. In 1995, after reports that 37 people had died from being thrown out the back when the lift-gate latches on their minivans opened, Chrysler offered to repair the latches on some 4 million minivans built from 1984 through 1995. The government is also investigating complaints that the seat belts for the bucket seats of 1991-93 Chrysler minivans came unlatched or could...