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Liberal confusion is particularly evident in foreign policy. While conservatives are often willing to use force in an immoral, unprincipled manner, liberals are often too pacifist or too skittish to use military force at all. For example, the Clinton administration vacillated on Bosnia and issued dozens of empty threats and...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: A Return to Militancy | 11/1/1995 | See Source »

At issue was a ruse whereby Leeson reconciled his year-end accounts in 1994. Both the London and Singapore reports agree that Leeson fabricated a $79 million credit from Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, a New York City-based securities trader, to offset his losses. When Barings' external auditors questioned the entry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BARINGS COLLAPSE: SPREADING THE BLAME | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

Elvis makes his appearance in Steve Martin's new play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, recently arrived off-Broadway after stints in Chicago and Los Angeles. The setting is a bar in Paris. The year is 1904. The chief protagonists are the young Albert Einstein (played by Mark Nelson) and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: PLAYWRITING ISN'T PRETTY | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

While these tales provide the most sensational illustrations of why reform of the U.N. system is urgently needed, they are not necessarily the most telling. It is true that "the U.N. is often used as a dumping ground for bureaucrats whom national governments want to get rid of," in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRAINING THE SWAMP | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

But a few things are different. In a Simpson ripple effect, Judge Stanley Weisberg has banned cameras from his Van Nuys courtroom. He has also ruled that the brothers be tried together, as the separate juries last time created too much confusion. Abramson--surprisingly, given her penchant for publicity last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND TIME AROUND | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

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