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Perhaps the most dangerous aspect about desensitization is its sheer insidiousness. It's all too easy to overlook, dismiss or parody this essential characteristic of the whole process. When the New York Times interviewed Pittsburgh moviegoers about Dole's speech, several of them argued against desensitization by maintaining that people can tell the difference between fiction and reality. The remarks of Kristy Larsen, a 17-year-old high school junior, were typical. "People can make up their own minds," she said. "I saw `Natural Born Killers' seven times. I really liked it. But I didn't go out and shoot...
...Under the Russian Constitution," saysTIME's J.F.O. McAllister, "the President has a lot of trump cards to play." Mindful ofBoris Yeltsin's constitutional clout, the Russian parliament has dropped its push to begin impeachment proceedings against him. Instead, they called on Yeltsin to dismiss his "power ministers" (those responsible for the army and security forces) for their mishandling of the war in Chechnya. Yeltsin may get rid of the ministers as the price of winning a vote of confidence scheduled for July 1. If it works, he can head off a crisis in which he would either have todismiss...
...Chechnya, gave the Chechens until this evening to comply, but so far they have refused. The fallout from the hostage-taking continues in Moscow, wherePresident Boris Yeltsin's governmentreceived a no-confidence vote from Parliament. While Russia's constitution allows Yeltsin to ignore the largely symbolic vote, he cannot dismiss the fact that his support in the Duma is evaporating rapidly: members are now circulating a petition to impeach the Russian President...
Other editors are quick to dismiss this as a nonstory. "I've known Calvin Klein since 1979," says Harper's Bazaar editor in chief Elizabeth Tilberis. "I've known Karl Lagerfeld since 1968. I've known Gianni Versace since 1974. You've grown up with these people, and they'll always be friends. But it absolutely does not affect your editorial judgment or their placement of ads." And how meaningful is one little Chanel outfit presented gratuit to someone who doesn't pay for her clothes anyway? "I have a very generous clothing allowance," says Vogue's editor in chief...
...mistake to dismiss the concerns of the militias as paranoid. The mainstream media are so viscerally liberal that they do not understand the low esteem in which they are held by the people. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court, activist federal judges and TIME all have a share in creating an environment in which the productive citizens of this country feel they have been forgotten by the government that is supposed to serve them...