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...amazing kid" is Captain O'Grady. World War II Air Force veterans, rest assured; they do still make 'em like they used to. (T. Sgt.) Frank J. Pagano, U.S.A.F. (ret.) San Rafael, California...
...this lock-'em-up-and-throw-away-the-key era, however, it is hard to drum up sympathy for poor, often minority, often guilty defendants. "In the war on crime," says Nicholas Chiarkas, Wisconsin's state public defender, "many people think of public defenders as representing the enemy." John Holdridge, director of the Mississippi and Louisiana Capital Trial Assistance Project, agrees. "This is the most unpopular issue around," he says...
...editor at a computer magazine who treats his machine as if it were organic, a delicate ecology of microchips and electric pulsing code. He's put a word-processing program and some bland communications software on it. Nothing more. While every new, cool program comes to him (laser-'em-up games, flight sims, goofy utilities that promise to make his computer bark like a Schnauzer), he refuses to put any of them on his hard drive for fear that doing so would expose it to grave biological risk...
...some moderate Republicans, says Stone, "but not enough. We need Democrats and independents, and our approach won't be subtle: 'Hey, folks, if you hate the antiabortion crazies' domination of the G.O.P., then show up at the Republican caucuses and vote for Arlen. That's the way to send 'em a message...
...former G.O.P. national chairman Rich Bond (before he signed with Dole). "But we'd offer a twist," says a Wilson adviser. "Sending a message is fine, we'll say, but why waste your vote? Pete's the only moderate with a real chance of stopping Dole." "We'll nuke 'em if they try that," says Stone, pointing to Wilson's "multiple choice" record on abortion. "He used to favor government funding for abortions for poor women, but doesn't any longer, and twice when he was a Senator he cast the deciding vote restricting federal health-insurance plans from providing...