As golden anniversaries go, it's a somber occasion. In a forlorn
expanse of desert scarcely an hour's drive northwest of Las Vegas, on Jan.
27, 1951, the Nevada Test Site went into operation by exploding an atomic bomb.
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14 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Oh, dear. The Borking of Linda Chavez is leading to another
round of sulking, hurt feelings and general acrimony, making the upcoming fight over the
confirmation of Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft even more...
10 January 2001
A surreal mixup disrupted CNN programming for a few moments on
Jan. 17 when the network switched to live coverage of Colin Powell. While
the retired general appeared on the screen, the audio was the voice of Sen.
Edward Kennedy at...
09 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- Worst idea of 2001 so far: naming a newspaper columnist to the U.S. Cabinet. You really don't want columnists running the government. As any newspaper reporter can tell you, all newspaper columnists work maybe two hours a...
07 January 2001
AUSTIN, Texas -- George W. Bush is threatening to give us an energy policy
that marches militantly in exactly the wrong direction.
Bush's views on energy are still those of a West Texas oilman. He once ran for Congress from Midland...
05 January 2001
We've come a long way in this country since the 19th century --
but not so long that an admirer of the Confederacy can't be nominated to
run the Justice Department of the United States. The president of the
Confederate government,...
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