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...Kuwaiti government is behaving as would most regimes in similar circumstances. Its overriding priority has been the reassertion of its authority. But its decision to disband the resistance groups that kept the peace in the weeks following liberation has been "a colossal error," in the words of a Western diplomat. "Embracing those who stayed and fought, using their expertise and praising their willingness to help, could have gone far toward uniting the nation...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 500 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on July 18 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 4.5%. "Not sures" omitted...
...legitimate habeas corpus petitions have been crucial to death-row inmates whose lawyers, many of them lacking experience in complex capital cases, often miss crucial issues at the trial level. Some 40% of all death sentences are overturned because a federal judge agrees there was some constitutional error in the verdict or sentence. Much of the legal profession was therefore pushing for a compromise that would reduce such petitions while guaranteeing that indigent Defendants could obtain more competent attorneys when they were tried for capital crimes...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on June 4-5 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...
There are some theories, of course. In what might be called the testosterone theory, a congenital error in the wiring of the male brain leads to a confusion between violence and sex. Men get off on hideous mayhem, and women, supposedly, cover their eyes. Then there's the raging puritan theory, which is based on the statistical fact that those who get slashed or eaten on the screen are usually guilty of a little fooling around themselves. It's only a tingle of rectitude we feel, according to this, when the bad girl finally gets hers. There's even...