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Over the past two years Navy plastic surgeons in San Diego have performed 544 free nose jobs, face-lifts, liposuctions and other cosmetic treatments on officers, sailors and their dependents. When the Los Angeles Times disclosed the numbers last week, critics castigated the work as a waste of money. The...
One year after the bloody crackdown that silenced China's nascent democracy movement, a divided Communist Party leadership is attempting to stifle dissent while it tries to put the best face on an unpopular regime. Recent decisions to relax the government's two-year-old economic austerity program, lift martial...
In the House, a bipartisan task force that tried to resolve the impasse came up empty after months of negotiations. Speaker Tom Foley and Republican leader Bob Michel last week made a last-ditch effort to achieve a compromise. Predictably, it failed. Now a bipartisan bill making such cosmetic changes...
Call those meddlesome government officials Mongolia's past and the enterprising Jiguur the future. The present is just as Jiguur experiences it: a country trying, by fits and starts, to make a graceful transition from orthodox communism to something approximating democracy. Since last December, reform-minded Mongolians have been pressuring...
Enough already. Congress has had its chance. The bills masquerading as campaign reform are little more than incumbent protection acts. Even if they become law, the changes will be cosmetic at best. At worst the nation will again be deluded into believing that the system has been fixed. And the...