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...That alone represents an improvement; until recently many suspects in violent attacks were charged with nothing more serious than disturbing the peace. The chairman of the German Union of Judges, Rainer Voss, admitted last week that the public saw the judges as "inappropriately lenient" and urged his colleagues "to confront decisively the enemies of humanity and democracy." The Molln case may have provided an instance of the kind of leniency the judges stand accused of. In the week before the attack, prosecutors tried repeatedly to have Michael Peters, 25, one of the two suspects in the case, arrested in connection...
...former professor of philosophy at Brandeis University, called for "an inquiry into a common ethics, given the nature and scope of the overwhelming threats which societies now confront together...
...Clinton's biggest concerns will be the global nature of the economic slump he must confront. With unemployment stuck above 7%, the U.S. desperately needs vigorous exports to put people back to work. But Europe too is mired in a downturn, and the collapse of Japan's financial and real estate markets has left that economic superpower reeling. "There's no way the economies of Europe and Japan can provide an engine of economic growth for the U.S.," says Barry Bosworth, an economist at the Brookings Institution. "Clinton will not be bailed out by a strong expansion overseas...
Like the office itself, the pain of an incumbent's defeat has to be immense. A friend of Jimmy Carter's watched him confront the fact he would not be re- elected in 1980 and said, "a part of him died." Jerry Ford clung to his hope for victory into election night, but as always with good politicians there comes a moment when truth confronts them and they accept it. When Ohio slipped out of Ford's grip on that fateful night in 1976, he got up from his chair in front of his television set and said, "That...
...have to opposing groups confront each other, however, is not very friendly. Even if the pro-choice groups do not shout and yell, they will no doubt be provoked by the pro-life groups. They will be called "baby killers" or worse. And it's difficult to resist responding to that kind of epithet...