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...reject the nuclear test-ban treaty. At the end of next week, when Clinton flies to Moscow for his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he will be looking over his shoulder at the North Carolinian. Helms, worried that Clinton might agree to Russian demands that the U.S. curb its missile-defense program, has already told the President not to bring back an arms deal, particularly one that keeps the Antiballistic Missile Treaty alive. He will kill it in his committee. "I just wanted to stop that before it grew feathers," the folksy Helms said in a lengthy interview...
Would we be safer if police had plenipotentiary powers? Certainly we would curb more crime if police could wander through our homes looking in closets and drawers or stopping and searching any person or car they chose. But the genius of American liberty is the recognition that public safety is not always the highest civic goal, and it may come at too high a price...
Gore said the best way to foster democratic reform and curb human rights abuses in China is by building close political and economic ties rather than containment...
...realized that she was probably too young even to know what she was saying. So I decided to call an expert for advice. "How old did you say this baby is?" asked James O'Connor, author of a new book called Cuss Control: The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing (Three Rivers; $12.95), which went on sale last week. Parents who came of age in the '60s and '70s, he said, "decided to do what we wanted and say what we wanted. So today our children are swearing more and swearing younger...
...Clementine that "words are like colors and swear words are fluorescent, so save them for when you want to make a big impression"--I cling to another bit of insight from Segal: "By the time children are six, they know what a curse means. She will be able to curb herself." In the meantime, I just may change supermarkets...