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...last summer, Alexander was telling prospective supporters that his views were too nuanced for labels. "That was O.K. for pro-choicers like me,'' says Mary Louise Smith, a leading Iowa G.O.P. activist. "I really don't understand his change." Alexander today describes himself as pro-life -- with a tortured caveat about "not wanting the government to subsidize, encourage or prohibit" abortion. When I asked if he would permit military personnel to get abortions at government hospitals (as Clinton allows, in a reversal of the Reagan-Bush policies), Alexander said, "What are you talking about?" Since then, one Alexander aide...
...technical caveat to be aware of: unless you have a double-speed CD-ROM player, stay away from this game. While the manual states that the game works with single-speed CD-ROM players, the cinematic sequences are completely ruined by the short pauses every few seconds as data is loaded from...
...those who have exchanged the pen for the image, the following caveat is worth bearing in mind: When good men cease to express their ideas in words, good men are doing nothing...
Former Soviet satellite countries may become the Pentagon's newest customers. Defense Secretary William Perry today said the U.S. has offered to sell F-16 fighter jets to Poland and "a number of Central European countries." But caveat emptor: TIME's Thompson says the jets are probably the same 200 older models that the Pentagon has failed to unload on the Philippines, Morocco and Venezuela. "You buy them for $8 million," Thompson says, "but you have to have $6 million in improvements done on each...
...Supreme Court decided to uphold a federal law against child pornography, throwing out a lower court's argument that the law impinges upon the First Amendment. But the high court also ruled that under the law defendants must have been aware that the material in question depicted minors -- a caveat that could undermine the law and make it harder for prosecutors to convict...