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...recent Opinion piece criticizing Lee Atwater for his ability "to exploit the democratic process" ("Good Riddance," April 3), Mark N. Templeton redefines tastelessness. While we think it is necessary to respond to Mr. Templeton's most blatant factual error, our primary concern is his inexcusable disregard for decency...
...Congress doesn't act now--when its constitutional powers have been abused to the point of ruin--it may never get another chance. The long-abused War Powers Resolution has been dealt a fatal blow by Bush's arrogant disregard of Congress in the Persian Gulf crisis. If Congress doesn't start to take seriously its Constitutional power to declare war, it will effectively lose...
...have forgotten that fundamental lesson: Our victory in the Persian Gulf came only at great human cost to the Iraqis. I do rejoice at the punishment of aggression; I am relieved that my friends who are members of our armed forces are safe. However, I am disgusted at the disregard for Iraqi life by American policymakers, military strategists and news media. Most of all, I am shocked at the way most Americans are ignoring the carnage in Iraq. The dead Iraqi soldiers, civilian men, women and children must be mourned. We must take responsibility for their deaths. They were killed...
...condemning violence in one part of the world while abetting or committing it in another part). Yet, we all know that imitating an international criminal only adds more suffering to a world fraught with 30 to 40 wars. In short, each of their track-records indicate a consistent disregard for the virtues of international...
Sometimes it's hard to believe Metzenbaum was a businessman before becoming a Senator. The quarter's profit increases looked so dramatic because the corresponding period in 1989 was the industry's worst in a decade. Disregard its Valdez-size write-offs of 1989, and the industry's total profits rose only 11% in 1990. That still didn't make them especially high. They represented just a 13.5% return on the shareholders' equity, far lower than in such businesses as cosmetics (30.5%), pharmaceuticals (29.5%) and restaurants (19%). "No one is accusing the cosmetics industry of making obscene profits," says William...