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...becomes offended when his motives are challenged on issues that affect the downtrodden. It is as if caring is an adequate substitution for doing. He reminds critics that he spoke out against discrimination long before he ran for office. His defenders contend that minority activists would be suspicious of Reagan anyway because of his conservative philosophy and because they can use hostility toward him as a rallying point for their followers. That observation is valid. But part of Reagan's self-imposed mandate is to show that his conservatism has a broad reach...
...money. Defense lawyers dismiss this as a possible motive, though they concede that the marriage had foundered and that Von Bülow had had an affair, reportedly with New York City Socialite Alexandra Isles, a sometime actress who appeared in the television gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. They contend that Sunny was a pathologically shy woman, who assuaged her demons with alcohol, drugs and compulsive eating, and either deliberately or accidentally caused the coma through her own excesses. Von Bülow, they say, had no need of her money, since he was capable of earning hundreds of thousands...
...discovered in Senzani's apartment provided new insight into the fissures dividing the Brigades. Since the killing of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, the group has split into two factions: the "militarists" who espouse the killing and kidnaping of all perceived enemies, and the "propagandists" who contend that terrorist tactics-including killing-must actually undermine state institutions. The dichotomy is believed to run through the five major Brigades columns, in Rome, Turin, Milan, Genoa and the Veneto area...
Valid objections to a peacetime--or a wartime--draft exist, but they are outweighed by the possible benefit. Critics of a draft argue that the all-volunteer force is meeting enlistment goals and improving in quality; hence, they contend, a draft is unnecessary. Not only does the argument ignore basic questions of fairness as outlined earlier, it also makes the assumption that all we should worry about is having enough bodies in uniform. We too want full enlistments; as we have said above, we also think a whole host of military, social and political ends are served by changing...
...Doctors learn their bad habits on the poor, but they don't forget their bad habits, they take them to the private sector. In private practice, there are far fewer regulations that a doctor has to contend with," Wolfe adds that there is no method which exists to monitor the extent of private sector abuse...