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Back in the days when Bill Bradley was playing forward for the Knicks in Madison Square Garden, it often seemed that his greatest gift was something akin to clairvoyance. He sensed not only where every other player on the court was at any moment but also where they would be next. Well before he felt the ball on his fingers, Bradley was already in position to score...
...specific guidance about which Internet material is appropriate and which is not. Earlier this month a consortium of information-highway companies that includes Microsoft, Progressive Networks and Netscape announced a plan that should help. By year's end the consortium is expected to come up with a rating system akin to the one used for movies. Anyone for a nice G-rated Web site...
...this high? Pulling back the curtain on the Pentagon's battle plan discloses a patchwork of arbitrary decisions and inflated threats. In 1993 the Administration concluded that the U.S. military needed enough forces to win two "major regional contingencies," each akin to the Persian Gulf War, at the same time. But there is growing sentiment in defense circles that the nation's two-war strategy is wrong, at least in light of expected funding levels. "The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high budget," says Pentagon cost analyst Franklin Spinney. A study by the Center...
...vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states may not prohibit the dissemination of anonymous campaign literature. Citing free-speech guarantees, the Justices invalidated an Ohio election law-one akin to those found in many states-that required campaign pamphleteers to print their names and addresses on their materials. "Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority," said Justice John Paul Stevens...
...tilted. Until now, no one has challenged Dole's conservatism. However, evidence of Dole's compassion--his support for school lunches, food stamps and AIDS research, for example--is cited by his opponents as proof that he is a closet moderate, which for many hard-core conservatives is akin to saying he's a socialist. If Dole were truly the leader he claims to be, he would be seeking to bring the G.O.P. back to his brand of pragmatism, the kind of Republicanism that flourished before Ronald Reagan. Instead, Dole is slavishly striving to join the rightward lurch...