Word: anews
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...point of leaving his post as the State Department's Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. His relationship with Secretary of State Warren Christopher and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake was rocky, and Wall Street, where he had carved out a lucrative career as an investment banker, beckoned anew. Then in July the Bosnian Serbs seized Srebrenica, a U.N.-designated "safe haven," and galvanized President Clinton into belated action. His departure plans suddenly on hold, Holbrooke took charge of the Administration's negotiations on Bosnia. Plunging zestfully into the Balkan thicket, he emerged last week with the dramatic Serb...
...profound belief that there is only oneway to achieve this: we must divest ourselves ofour egotistical anthropocentrism, our habit ofseeing ourselves as masters of the universe whocan do whatever occurs to us. We must discover anew respect for what transcends us: for theuniverse, for the earth, for nature, for life andfor reality. Our respect for other people, forother nations and for other cultures, can onlygrow from a humble respect for the cosmic orderand from an awareness that we are a part of it,that we share in it and that nothing of what we dois last, but rather becomes part...
...most important world organization is theUnited Nations. I think that the fiftiethanniversary of its birth could be an occasion toreflect on how to infuse it with a new ethos, anew strength and a new meaning, and make it thetruly most important arena of good co-operationamong all cultures that make up our planetarycivilization...
Opponents of anew Senate planto ban "indecent" material from the Internet and online servicesnow have a powerful ally in House Speaker Newt Gingrich.House members are already planning a far less restrictive approach: Reps. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are pushing a plan to give parents, not the government, the power to block children's access to sexually explicit or obscene materials.TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWittsays the bill also would removeliability for online providersthat try to screen out obscene material themselves. A legal ruling against Prodigy last month held the service accountable for users' electronic postings precisely...
Opponents of anew Senate plan to ban "indecent" material from the Internet and online servicesnow have an ally in House Speaker Newt Gingrich. On his weekly cable program "Progress Report" Tuesday night, Gingrich said the Communications Decency Act -- whichcleared the Senate overwhelmingly last week-- was "clearly a violation of free speech and it's a violation of the right of adults to communicate with each other." The amendment to a massive telecommunications reform package would impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years forknowingly transmitting "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures...