PHILADELPHIA -- Joe Frazier answered the final bell Monday, a pair of boxing gloves and a championship belt draped across his coffin, eulogized as an ordinary man who achieved extraordinary greatness in the ring, an ''average Joe'' who brought decency to a brutal sport. His opponent in three epic bouts, Muhammad Ali, attended the funeral service,...
Critics largely gave Gov. Rick Perry a pass for hunting on a deer lease that once carried a racist name. Even the White House accepted Mr. Perry's explanation that his family found the word abhorrent and had painted over it at the first opportunity. But a television advertisement that helped put Mr. Perry over the top in his 1990 race for...
To the Editor: Reading ''In Tapes, Candid Talk by Young Kennedy Widow'' (front page, Sept. 12), about the newly published Jackie Kennedy oral history, reminded me of a phone call from President John F. Kennedy the day after her televised tour of the White House. At the time, I was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. President Kennedy...