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...Wednesday morning McCain and Feingold orchestrated matters to produce precisely the same number of votes for the Thompson and Feinstein proposals, to force both sides to the table while assuring they were on exactly equal footing. The summit was supposed to last an hour and a half, but stretched on for three. "Outside of Vietnam, I don't think John's ever been in a room for three hours," adviser John Weaver said dryly...
...images: Elian screaming before a submachine gun-toting INS agent, and a happy boy reunited with his dad. Editors and producers thus challenged will often use both sides' images. But a Solomon-like approach is not automatically evenhanded. News organizations tend to present conflicts from a perspective in which equal time--or photoplay--constitutes fairness. But to show a slain Jew for a slain Palestinian may imply that both sides have suffered equal losses, in a conflict in which 459 people, many of them children and most of them Palestinian, have died. Or it may imply equal culpability...
...advocates say it's about time for this change. "The officials in Texas are just realizing what the public understands via common sense," says Jo-Ann Wallace, chief counsel for defender services at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. "You cannot have a fair justice system without equal representation...
...speculation. Two days' walking in the mountains behind rebel lines revealed a disheveled band of recruits and local volunteers--some in fatigues, some in sneakers and track suits, lightly armed and using mules for transport. And despite several perfunctory communiques through Albanian expatriates like Veliu that their aim is "equal rights" for the ethnic-Albanian minority in Macedonia, it is still unclear exactly what they are fighting for. "Nothing is going on here that warrants taking to the hills," says a senior Western diplomat...
...macabre twist on equal opportunity, a new study out of the U.S. Surgeon General's office shows women's death rates from smoking-related cancer have drawn nearly even with men's. That's something of an epidemiological sea change - back in 1965, only two out of 10 Americans who died from smoking were women, and now that number is four in 10. The numbers of men and women who smoke mirror the shift: In 1964, 52 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. Today, 26 percent of men and 22 percent of women light...