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...reform. But investors are divided over what needs to be done. The gentle, self-policing era that sec chairman Harvey Pitt proclaimed last October is dead and gone, but even some battered investors don't trust grandstanding lawmakers to distinguish between reforms that are needed and those that will cramp the recovery even more. That was the argument Dick Cheney and others made to the President-that in the long run, Bush will suffer more if he gets a quick political boost from reforms that strangle the economy. While more Americans now see Big Business as a threat, polls show...
...poor thumbs needed a massage. This is the perennial problem with keyboards; doing any motion over and over puts you at risk for repetitive-stress injuries, and pecking at thumb keyboards is no exception. Graffiti, for all its faults, has never given me so much as writer's cramp...
...underground railway, even neon lights. The artists gathered in steep and semi-rural Montmartre and later in Montparnasse, St. Germain des Près and the Latin Quarter. Groups of friends evolved into artistic movements, each with an "-ism" of its own. Even World War I couldn't cramp the city's style. "Paris, Capital of the Arts 1900-1968," which opened last month at London's Royal Academy of Arts (it moves to the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, from May 21), charts the city's artistic history. "The R.A. has had a tradition over the last 20 years of doing...
Even war criminals usually go to the trouble of claiming some moral justification for their crimes, some moral equivalence with their enemies. Timothy McVeigh argued that the arrogance of the Federal Government, the government that wanted to take his guns and cramp his rights, was so vast and so dangerous that he needed to blow up a building, start a revolution. "I did it for the larger good," he claimed, and if innocent people had to die, well, that's what happens in war. He called the 19 dead children "collateral damage," and bragged that even if he is executed...
Arafat will be under pressure to do so to satisfy the public outcry over collaborators whose work has helped Israel cramp the style of Palestinian fighters. But Amin Medani, chief technical adviser in the Gaza office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, argues that Israel's hits could lead to a situation in which rival Palestinian gangs can accuse anyone of collaboration as an excuse to rub someone out. That might prompt a nightmare mixture of killings and retributions that could only make an already chaotic situation worse. "It's not acceptable to have mob justice," says Medani...