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...always cared -- about service to this country, particularly about those who are in law enforcement," he told TIME. "These people lay their lives on the line every day for the United States. This broad-based attack should not go unchallenged. It is just wrong. It totally slandered decent law-enforcement public servants...
...system does, sometimes not. Voluntary voting allows us to decide whether we have been offered a meaningful choice. Compulsory voting would force Americans to choose between the lesser of two evils. This is what Boogie Down Productions' front-man calls a choice "between the mumps and the measles." Decent people do not vote for evil, and when offered a choice between a greater evil and a lesser evil, they walk away. Low voting rates may be the best indicators we have that our elections are the sort that decent people want no part of. Altman's plan would conceal this...
...hero will be a storekeeper, a young, energetic Irish immigrant in Australia at the turn of the century. Tim Shea is a good, intelligent man, the kind of big, decent fellow that men and women like. But he is thought to be dangerously political, no great admirer of the British Empire, and this during the Boer War, a time of obligatory super-patriotism. Give Shea some troubles; he's half a day's receipts from bank- ruptcy, supporting a raft of relatives, too kindly to press customers for payment. Too soft altogether; he is strangely affected by the death...
...Operation Desert Storm, where he won several medals, including a Bronze Star. Although the awards were described by Pentagon officials as "typical" for those who served in the theater, one officer notes, "Some captains and majors didn't get Bronze Stars, so he must have been a half-decent soldier...
...EVERY DECENT CITIZEN IS SURELY AFFRONTED by the picture of Asahara on your cover. It may sell magazines, but doesn't the press have a moral responsibility not to glamourize terrorism? Rest assured that your choice of cover picture will inspire like-minded individuals to gain worldwide publicity by perpetrating their own acts of terror...