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...Order As Haiti dissolves into chaos, the U.S. Marines move in to defang the man who ousted Aristide...
...Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei confirmed that Iraq had still not complied with U.N. resolutions that it disarm. "We cannot allow this process to be endlessly strung out," said Secretary of State Colin Powell. Most members of the Council, however, remain convinced that the inspectors are the best way to defang Saddam...
Bangkok-based filmmaker/activist Ing Kanjanavanit isn't appeased. "This battle isn't just over one cove on a small remote island; it's over the institution of our National Park Act itself," she says. "For 10 years the government tried to defang it and open up parks for tourism de-velopment. In this case, the studio's agenda and the government's agenda met." Kanjanavanit, who can no longer speak about The Beach situation without crying, says families and friends on the neighboring island Phi Phi Don have split over the controversy. She's right about that. "Many people...
...defang government, Gingrich would defund it. He and his party are insisting on $245 billion in tax cuts as a centerpiece of their effort. But is this great tax reduction flowing back into the pockets of all Americans? No. The tax reductions were, in part, a sop to the G.O.P. moralists who bemoan the dissolution of the family. The "family" tax cuts were aimed at people raising children, but not at all people raising children. The credits are worthless to the families in which a third of American children live, because those families don't earn enough to pay income...
...timing of the concerted outburst seems designed to defang criticism in advance of the presidential election campaign. And the strategy could be effective. The fact that many of the larger news organizations lean to the liberal side gives the Administration ammunition. The occasional errors committed by newsmen add to the media's credibility problem. "The White House is feeding on it," says Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, a past president of the White House Correspondents Association. "Now that they are coming up to the campaign, they look for a scapegoat. The press is an immediate and vulnerable...