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...when it comes to black America, Jews were oppressors. This leaves Jews, who played a major role in the black civil rights movement, feeling betrayed. And as a matter of logic, points out Farrakhan adversary Henry Louis Gates, chairman of Harvard's department of African-American studies, it is dubious. To blame Jews today for acts centuries ago, Gates says, carries "the tacit conviction that culpability is heritable...
...previous Administrations. Gone, though, is Clinton's promise to provide addicts with "treatment on demand" and his pledge to spend more money on education and prevention than on law enforcement. If approved by Congress, Clinton's overall antidrug budget will climb about $1 billion, but even after including the dubious allocation of $285 million for community policing as a "prevention and treatment" expense, the ratio split will still favor enforcement 59% to 41% -- down only $ slightly from George Bush's emphasis, which had the ratio...
...will air strikes or Serb compliance with the ultimatum actually do much to end the war and stop the killing? The Pentagon is dubious that NATO planes can do much damage. In the face of past threats, the Serbs have proved adept at backing down just enough to keep things quiet for a while, then stepping up the fighting again. There is also a fear that the ultimatum and air strikes are a mere facade behind which the U.S. will help pressure Bosnia's beleaguered Muslims into settling the war on terms amounting to a surrender to Serb aggression...
...start with, whether AFARM should even exist is dubious. It responds to the legitimate concerns of AALARM, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality, not with open and smart discussion but with lame posters and infantile humor...
...leader in the voting for the best newsweekly reporter. "He knows the people here pretty well and can read between the lines," one official is reported as saying. Duffy expresses horror at the thought of receiving praise from notoriously manipulative sources, noting ruefully that "this may be a very dubious honor...