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...what have we learned so far? Millions of people languish in a brutal military dictatorship in Haiti. Thousands more try to flee to the U.S. every day. President Clinton linked himself to helping the Haitian boat people during the campaign, although many Americans are opposed to allowing those people in the country. There is no place else that will accept them besides the U.S. That leaves two questions left: what ought to be done and what will be done...
Thank you for presenting a balanced view of domestic violence. Your report states, "Often the drama is fueled by both parties." The media have otherwise toed the politically correct line of the brutal male perpetrator and the innocent female victim. However, both the male and the female are caught up in an orbit of mutual destructiveness. Why do we excuse women's behavior as the by-product of social conditioning while men are held fully responsible for theirs? Only by holding both genders accountable for domestic violence can we begin to address the dangerous fantasies and expectations that underlie physical...
...Velvet Revolution" was Nicolau Ceaucescu, ex-autocrat of Romania. By 'major', the longtime existence of a self-created cult of personality is implied. Construction teams never finished the huge residential complex that Ceaucescu had commissioned towards his own greater glory. His and his wife's brutal totalitarianism ended with a hail of bullets and mutilation of their corpses...
Despite his astonishing displays of excess, there seems to be a kind of brutal calculus behind the madness. "If I behave like the good-natured intellectual I really am," Zhirinovsky told TIME editors last week, "I won't get votes. It's war out there, and I'm out to win." Yet the loud applause that greets his vision is no longer confined to the fringes of the Russian nationalist movement. After a stunning success last December when his Liberal Democratic Party won 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, dealing a major blow to Yeltsin...
...horror has always been with us, a persistent secret, silent and pernicious, intimate and brutal. Now, however, as a result of the Simpson drama, Americans are confronting the ferocious violence that may erupt when love runs awry. Women who have clung to destructive relationships for years are realizing, like Dana, that they may be in dire jeopardy. Last week phone calls to domestic-violence hot lines surged to record numbers; many battered women suddenly found the strength to quit their homes and seek sanctuary in shelters. Although it has been two years since the American Medical Association reported that...