
Omani Co-Pilot on FlyDubai Flight Is Said to Have Extremist Views
It was unclear what background checks had been carried out before he was allowed to fly to Israel.
Julian E. Barnes, Aaron Boxerman and Jane BradleyAirlines and AirplanesHijacking
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It was unclear what background checks had been carried out before he was allowed to fly to Israel.
Julian E. Barnes, Aaron Boxerman and Jane BradleyAirlines and AirplanesHijacking

A New York production brings Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci’s 1993 debate to life in a masterclass of controlled furyOn 30 November 1993, the Aids activist Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, were arguing again. They argued a lot back then about the US government’s response, or lack thereof, to the Aids crisis. Fauci asserted institutional legitimacy. Kramer scolded that any institution presiding over a genocide doesn’t have any. Kramer wanted to untie Fauci’s hands from politics and bureaucracy; Fauci wanted to de-escalate Kramer’s vituperous hand-wringing. They also ribbed each other, allies as often as antagonists.On the night they appeared on C-Span, the buttoned-up not-for-profit cable channel better known for unfettered congressional coverage than for the verbal pyrotechnics of CNN’s Crossfire, or the revelations-as
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