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...How is making deals with FALN members different from negotiating with other terrorist organizations...

...It's an argument, says Pastorella, that sets a new threshold for clemency requests: "Terry Nichols wasn't actually at the [federal building] bombing in Oklahoma City...

...What's striking, though, is that no one from the White House called Richard Pastorella...

...Koop, for his part, remains infatuated with his image...

...And as Pastorella points out, if Clinton's FALN members had so little to do with the violence the group committed, how come the bombings stopped when they were locked up...

...At the time they were arrested, some of the soon-to-be released terrorists were planning—and were videotaped by the FBI planning—to blow up two government buildings in Chicago...

...Cohen's rhetoric was Church-illian, though, compared with that of national security adviser Samuel Berger, who wanted to clear up any confusion about American willingness to respond to humanitarian outrages: "You know, my daughter has a very messy apartment up in college," said Berger sarcastically...

...He and another officer were gravely injured...

...Thus the limits of power, according to Sandy Berger: Don't bother us with dirty laundry, or dead Timorese...

...The New York Times further reported that the Web site was littered with advertising masquerading as expert medical advice, and that Koop's non-profit institute had received a million-dollar grant from a drug company...

...Even before Agassi bared his chest, it was clear that American men's tennis is in decline...

...Pas-torella's family (including two teenage sons, both of whom are now New York City cops) remains devastated...

...The rise of men without chest hair was analyzed in these very pages by THE WEEKLY STANDARD's David Skinner a few months ago...

...maybe I shouldn't intervene to have that cleaned up...

...I am an icon, and I have a reputation for honesty and integrity...

...And why didn't the White House ask for an impact statement from Pastorella or the widows and families of other victims of FALN violence...

...When people think of me," said Koop, "they tell me that they think of integrity...

...Pastorella doesn't know the answers to these questions because, as he said, no one from the administration ever called...

...I have never been bought," he told the Times, "I cannot be bought...

...One of Koop's successors as surgeon general, Joycelyn Elders, had a reputation for extolling the delights of self-love...

...AP) Cash won't solve the nation's education problems, but it can help improve the military, according to Texas Gov...

...Some of the others, he says, helped steal the explosives for the bomb...

...Since then, shaved chests have gone mainstream...

...But Koop's reservoir of integrity occasionally runs low...

...This was not the first such unveiling by Agassi: At the 1993 Wimbledon tournament, he was similarly shorn, giving rise to speculation that then-girlfriend Barbra Streisand perhaps preferred her man not to look like one...

...This was a particularly delicate task given the expansive promises the administration made during NATO's Kosovo offensive that it would never again turn its back on slaughter of the sort now being visited on the Timorese...

...Prior to the 1990s, shaved and waxed abs were found only among body builders and gay men, that is, two groups who in their own ways distorted manliness to the point of parody...

...Biased Lead ofthe Year Why depend on faxes from the Democratic National Committee, when you can just read the wires...

...George W. Bush...

...Because that's what the self-described "health conscience of the nation" told The Weekly Standard's Matt Labash last summer after the initial public offering of his eponymous Web site, drkoop.com...

...Pastorella was permanently blinded in both eyes...

...Pastorella, a former New York City police detective, knows quite a bit about the FALN...

...Apologists for the FALN—and there are many, including, naturally, Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu—point out that none of the prisoners who are being released was convicted of setting off bombs that killed anyone...

...Integrity himself, fessed up to the embarrassing fact that they had failed to abide by SEC rules for insiders selling stock...

...Scrapbook Bill Clinton's Favorite Bombers Before deciding to offer clemency to 16 imprisoned members of the FALN, the Puerto Rican terrorist group, President Clinton no doubt solicited the opinions of a number of different people—his lawyers, his political advisers, representatives of various interest groups, and of course—ludicrous denials aside—his wife, the Senate candidate from New York...

...Open The hairless man went prime time last week at the U.S...

...Pastorella believes that at least one of the terrorists Clinton is set to release was directly involved in the bombing that blinded him...

...BEDFORD, N.H...

...Meanwhile, women's tennis has never been more competitive...

...But it is Koop who would be well-advised to log onto his own Web site, so that he can ask a medical expert whether there's any cure for the solitary vice...

...It took two years, 13 operations, and 22 titanium screws to repair his shattered face...

...How does The Scrapbook know this...

...On New Year's Eve 1982, he was outside a federal building in downtown Manhattan when an FALN bomb went off...

...Needless to say, it was not the Clinton team's finest hour...

...Samuel Berger, Moral Midget Desperate East Timorese Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta arrived in Washington last week to plead the case that the United States should do something to defend his countrymen from the Indonesian soldiers who have been on a murderous rampage against civilians in East Timor ever since they had the temerity to vote for independence in an August 30 referendum...

...Koopiness Former surgeon general C. Everett Koop has always been a paragon of integrity...

...Open, when a newly bare Andre Agassi peeled off his shirt for the apparently adoring crowds...

...It is more than passing strange, Skinner argued, that American male sex symbols should embrace this boyish look...

...So he can say what [FALN members] are saying: 'Well, I wasn't there...

...We will never have clemency from our injuries," Pastorella says...

...I had nothing to do with it.' Does that mean that we say to him at some point, 'Well, you spent ten years of your life in prison, you poor soul, why don't we let you out in society again so you can get a second shot at us?'" Good question...

...Ramos-Horta's pleas induced a different sort of desperation in the Clinton foreign-policy apparat, which has long maintained cordial relations with the thugs of Jakarta: How to stiff the Nobel Prize winner and not look bad in the process...

...All of them, he points out, belonged to a group that was dedicated to committing violence against the U.S...

...Between 1974 and 1985, the FALN committed at least 120 bombings around the country, killing five people and injuring more than 60...

...Hairless abs, once de rigueur only for male fashion models, have become the norm for Hollywood heartthrobs...

...As Labash reported in July, he was profiting from a medical-advice Web site that he barely read, let alone edited, and this after he had sanctimoniously criticized Reagan-administration colleagues for profiting from their time in government...

...First, secretary of defense William Cohen reached for the hoariest cliché in the American foreign-policy playbook: We "cannot be and should not be viewed as [yes, he really said this] the policeman of the world...

...Pastorella has other good questions, too: Why didn't Clinton wait until the FALN members showed contrition before offering to release them...

...The Hairless Man at the U.S...

...government...

...Last week, several top executives of drkoop.com, including Dr...

...Time to grow back your hair, men...

...His body was peppered with shrapnel, and his hearing was destroyed...

...All five fingers were torn from his right hand...