Epstein Secrets

rred. James Blackburn never disclosed to the court or defense counsel what Helena Stoeckley admitted to him in Jim Britt's presence. On the contrary, Blackburn, at a critical juncture in the trial, advised the court that Stoeckley, when he interviewed her, denied having any knowledge of the MacDonald family,

nt them in the failed efforts to fly the Palestinian flag from a flagpole in the Harvard Yard. They knew my negative views of their hero—I had called Arafat’s death “untimely,” because if he had only died five years earlier, the Palestinian Authority might well have accepted the Clinton-Barak peace offer—

they disagree with to express wrongheaded views, while insisting on their own right—indeed obligation—to express disagreement with such views. When Yasser Arafat died in 2004, I was asked by Palestinian students at Harvard to represent them in the failed efforts to fly the Palestinian flag from a flagpole in t

f Christian gentlemen." They lost control of General Mo- tors. GM now seems to be under the control of unsaved labor Tom unions that Blackburn were explic- itly excluded by Mr. Baer's theology of management. Sharing in the mastery is "government," a word that conservatives use the wa

e cor- ruption, tyranny, religious intolerance and forced mili- tarization: leadership that for three generations — Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1947, Yasser Arafat in 2000, Mr. Abbas in December 2008 — rejected every offer of independence and dignity, choosing destitution and de- spair rather than accept any

going to want to pay attention to what its mindless- ness is costing. Paying that kind of attention used to be one of the president's jobs. ?Om Blackburn is an edito- rial writer for The Palm Beach Post. His e-mail address is tom_ blackburnkOkbpost.com Security moves more `feel-good stuff By SUS

with rockets as another crashed down out- side. His first taste was at age 13, back in 1970, when the Palestine Liberation Organi- zation, led by Yasser Arafat, began raining rockets on the town. In 1982. Ben-Abo was a soldier who fought in Leba- non for nearly a year in an operation that drove the PLO