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...Indian Police Commissioner Sharat Chandra Burman on women protesting the Miss World Competition, which is being held in India this year. Members of a militant Indian women's group have threatened to commit suicide on the day of the finale. A 25-year-old protestor died Thursday after setting himself on fire...
...WASHINGTON, D.C.: "Christopher's legacy is one of unfinished business," notes TIME's Dean Fischer. "He devoted much time and energy to negotiating peace in the Middle East, which remains undone. Bosnia is still a question mark, although Christopher can be credited with convincing the President to commit troops. The Administration's China policy is still a work in progress, but we can credit Christopher with injecting realism into U.S. policy with respect to China, although there is still a problem balancing human rights concerns with trade issues. As NATO expansion continues, Christopher's successor will need to execute some...
...when did we start yearning for childhood and simultaneously hating so many of the little people to whom it rightly belongs? An even halfway-liberal presidential candidate would point out that despite all the media fuss over "killer kids" and "wolf packs," it's the grownups who commit 87% of violent crimes, which include plenty of crimes against children. According to the Justice Department, 6 out of 10 violent crimes against children are committed by adults--often the parents or caretakers of the victims...
...Morgan wants to eliminate what he says are tax loopholes for special interests and to encourage investment by indexing the capital-gains tax to inflation and by improving the tax treatment of IRAs. On crime, he wants to abolish parole for violent offenders and try as adults juveniles who commit violent crimes. He also supports an amendment to ban abortion except in cases of rape, incest and when the woman's life is in danger...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "People talk about their marriages being threatened [by same-sex unions]. I find it implausible that two men deciding to commit themselves to each other threatens the marriage of people a couple of blocks away...