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Healthy debate prevents good minds from stagnating by forcing us to defend our positions in the face of intelligent opposition. And when debate is truly healthy--which it sometimes is--it will include listening, enough of it so that we may amend our preconceived ideas in the face of particularly reasonable challenges...
General Norman Schwarzkopf returns home this week to a hero's welcome -- and that has some disgruntled military colleagues anxious to amend the record. They say that contrary to many reports, Schwarzkopf was never in line to be Army Chief of Staff. Top Pentagon officials contend that the general was offered -- and rejected -- an appointment as Supreme Allied Commander for Europe. The general turned down the NATO job, they assume, largely because he realized that it has become less important in the post-cold war era. Some top brass consider Schwarzkopf too mercurial for the bureaucratic Army job and aren...
...executive session, the committee gave a favorable report to the measure, which would amend the Police Blotter Law. The amendment, which would force college and university police to compile daily logs and leave them open to the public, was said to have had the strong support of state Rep. Sal DiMasi (D-Boston), House chair of the committee...
...Florida those pushy lawyers who hawk themselves on TV will have to amend their ways. As of Jan. 1, a new set of rules put a virtual gag on attorneys pushing their services on the tube. They are forbidden to use dramatic scenes, slogans, endorsements from clients, plugs from celebrities, moving pictures -- in short, just about anything of greater interest than a test pattern. To top it off, such commercials have to include a disclaimer warning potential customers that they shouldn't be picking attorneys through TV ads in the first place. The Florida Bar Association, which developed the rules...
...letter was "an effort to provide his view of the Gulf crisis as it relates to college age Americans," according to Deb Amend, special assistant to the President for communications...