Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stirring up debate, McVeigh gives the abolitionists another chance to make their case by reminding people how little he has in common with the vast majority of death-row inmates. Where McVeigh is an unrepentant, white mass murderer who planned carefully, killed wantonly, worked to cover his tracks and enjoyed a competent, $10 million defense, most death-row inmates are poor people, disproportionately black or Latino, often retarded or abused as children, and are represented by court-appointed greenhorns and burnouts better suited to traffic court--or, in their appeal stage, by no one at all. And where the case...
...faith in deterrence is dying (and faith in rehabilitation is virtually dead), belief in retribution is alive and well. Death-penalty foe David Bruck calls retribution "the only moral reason for punishment. It's our way of expressing our common beliefs in what's right and wrong." The question is what form retribution should take. At its most elemental level, retribution blurs with revenge. "Some animals deserve to be put off the face of the earth," explains Richard Brill, a retired government cartographer in Denver. But there's a distinction to be made between revenge--a hot, deeply personal desire...
Seven weeks ago, French President Jacques Chirac impetuously decided to call a snap election, hoping that unhappy voters would give him a new mandate to push ahead on the tough economic reforms aimed at making his country ready to join the European common currency in 1999. But the French instead took the opportunity to slap Chirac and his austerity program, demolishing the right-wing majority in the National Assembly and installing rival Socialist Lionel Jospin as Prime Minister. Now the white-haired, square-jawed Jospin will share power with Chirac in an arrangement the French charmingly call "cohabitation...
...almost the same time frame as NATO's move eastward, the European Union is putting together a monetary in-group with a common currency. Again, some countries will get in and some will be left out. This is very much a revolution from above, while ordinary citizens are increasingly rebellious. For the moment they are more resentful of the price of the monetary union--budget cutting and unemployment--than of its audacious surrender of national power. Voters in France, where the jobless rate is 12.8%, made that clear with a massive rebuke to the government of President Jacques Chirac...
...that is more political than economic: that consultations on numbers will evolve into decision making in concert, first on domestic policies and then in the foreign and defense fields. "When we have the same currency," says former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, "we will feel the need for common institutions...