On Tuesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that its count had been changed to 103, up from the 88 U.S. deaths related to the kind of tires involved in an Aug. 9 recall. The discovery was made by two University of Maryland journalism students. Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, complained, saying the death count should remain at 103. The statistic should remain the same. A death is a death.
Life is life.
Truman building named Of all the buildings, monuments and bridges in the nation's capital, two dozen are named for presidents. Until Friday, none bore the name of Harry S. Truman. At a ceremony attended by members of Truman's family and presidential administration, President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright named the State Department headquarters for Truman, the nation's 33rd president. Clearly, his greatest achievements lay in the foreign policy area, if you had to single out a single area. I think he'd be honored.