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...culminates with a confession, the only legitimate one lodged in the court in months, and it proves to seal his fate. Meanwhile the perjury of others not only protects them but esteems them in the eyes of the court. Efron's simmering outrage underlines the impotent justice of Judge Danforth (Richard Gardner...
...germ of Danforth's dilemma is more potent today than when Miller wrote the play in 1953. Conviction and acquittal are reached solely on the basis of personal testimony, character witness, and most importantly, the social climate which dictates the popular mood under which judgments are reached. Walling effectively draws Abigail as malicious and manipulative, playing with her power as she would a dumb...
Complicating the equation is another promise that the President made in order to pass his budget plan: establishing a bipartisan commission on entitlement reform, led by Nebraska Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey and G.O.P. Senator John Danforth of Missouri. The tentative consensus within the White House leans toward dynamic inaction, waiting for the commission's report in May to test the political waters on paring entitlements. But that would still leave unresolved a ticklish problem: Where would the savings from entitlement reform go? Congress is awash with it's-the-deficit-stupid fervor, while the Administration covets new money...
WASHINGTON -- Senators Bob Kerrey and John Danforth, co-chairs of the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement Reform -- the group President Clinton agreed to back in order to win Democrat Kerrey's crucial vote on the budget -- appear set to pick Fred Goldberg, the IRS chief under Bush, as their executive director. Goldberg is an advocate of shifting federal taxes away from income to consumption, as are -- in a general way -- Danforth and Kerrey. This worries Clinton economic advisers. Having been singed already this year by a VAT scheme, they don't want the President to be associated with any similar proposals...
...whether increased manufacturing on the U.S. border with Mexico might lead to increased pollution. The delay will give opponents more time to organize and push the controversial vote into a congressional election year. "My fear is that NAFTA is finished unless this ruling is overturned," fretted Missouri Senator John Danforth...