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...next few weeks of budget summitry will require a tight focus and a strong stomach. The most immediate danger for Gingrich is that this extraordinary year will yield little concrete policy change--an outcome that Dole or Clinton could exploit in their presidential campaigns but one that could consign the Speaker to political limbo...
...spiteful critics don't consign a film to the dustbin, sooner or later enthusiastic viewers will. But the gradual degeneration of the print should only serve as further encouragement to rush to the HFA while the going is still relatively good...
...every offender who fit that profile were beyond help, judges would know better which kids to consign to lockups. They aren't all beyond help, so authorities stumble around in the dark. Indeed, the records of young offenders are generally closed, so previous offenses aren't always disclosed to judges who rule on subsequent ones. When New York State passed its juvenile-offender law in 1978, the outcome was regarded as the toughest new arrangement in the nation. On the surface, it was: those from 13 through 15 accused of heinous felonies were moved from Family Court, where the maximum...
...last week, too, the Clinton Administration's initial response to the renewed flood of refugees that Castro had let loose was heading toward a dead end. The White House had hoped its decision to consign the fugitives indefinitely to the bleak tent cities at Guantanamo would discourage the balseros from pushing off into the Straits of Florida. But a drop-off during the final weekend in August was caused merely by foul weather; clearing skies and lower waves tempted so many rafters into the water last week that U.S. vessels were again picking up more than...
...time, the hearing was decided at that % moment. The defense's main strategy was dashed. The prosecution had tipped at least part of its hand, and the judge had tipped hers. After such a rousing affirmation of the police and their judgment, it was unlikely that she would consign their case to legal limbo. From then on, Clark's presentation of her witnesses seemed less like that of a prosecutor fighting for her case than of a victorious poker player laying down a royal flush, card by card...