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...standards, Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor has decided that because the U.S. punishes its nationals for paying bribes to obtain contracts, American firms unfairly lose billions in global business deals. In Europe such bribes are not only legal but usually tax deductible. So Kantor is pressing other countries hard to adopt U.S. corrupt-practices law. He is warning that if foreign competitors do not, he may go to Congress for stronger laws, and sanctions might be in the offing...
That is well and good as long as it avoids blunt coercion: If you won't follow us, we'll punish you. A heavy hand can galvanize reluctant countries to adopt tougher measures, but when the efficacy and price of the policy are so suspect, it may also produce deep resentment from vitally important friends. At a recent conference in Europe two nato ambassadors smarting from the pressure accused the U.S. of "political gangsterism." What American officials call leadership, many of America's friends around the world call bullying...
Delegates used a morning session to adopt a decidedly conservative platform that calls for constitutional amendments outlawing abortion and denying citizenship to American-born children of illegal immigrants...
...world did not let them go quietly. The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, denounced the destruction as a "prenatal massacre"; protesters held a vigil outside Westminster Cathedral before the event and memorial services afterward; and people across Europe offered to "adopt" the frozen cells to preserve them. Childless couples bitterly lamented that they would gladly have taken the embryos for themselves. And some clinic workers contemplated going to jail rather than carry out the law, though they yielded...
...move that could signal the beginning of much broader use of Crimson Cash throughout the University, two major library systems have decided to adopt that payment method for photocopying services...