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...telling comes with Clinton's pledges to solve America's problems. Clinton's proposals may not be very different from those of other politicians, but because of the showing that accompanies them, the proposals appear to have sprung not from some abstract principle or expert's calculation but from his bond with us. The experience leaves us united in empathy for our sufferings and committed to the struggle to relieve them. It's like a 12-step program, minus appeals to a Higher Power...
Pictures also help tell the story, thanks to Moscow photo editor Glenn Mack, an Arkansas native and expert on Russian language, literature and telephone etiquette. "You are fortunate if you have a clear line long enough to have an actual conversation," he says. Bureau chief John Kohan, who returned to New York City last week to help editors close the issue, probed the Russian mind in an essay reflecting his four years in Moscow. "Just because they have McDonald's and Barbie dolls, we shouldn't expect they'll think and act like Americans," he says. That is precisely...
...expelled as men in what has often amounted to witch-hunts. Clinton takes great care to emphasize the difference between sexual orientation and conduct. % Simple homosexual proclivity, he argued, should not be grounds for expulsion. "Clinton's not advocating a homosexual life-style," says Lawrence Korb, a military expert at the Brookings Institution. "He's just supporting the human rights of those persons...
...root of the trouble, says Bernd Wagner, a former eastern police official and an expert on right-wing radicalism, is the severe dislocation of eastern society: in addition to unemployment, housing is in short supply, rents have tripled, crime rates have skyrocketed. "To say that solving the asylum problem will solve the far-right problem is complete nonsense," says Wagner...
Abuse is a mild term for the torture that parents inflict. When he went on trial for murder last August in Olympia, Washington, Israel Marquez, 17, recited a litany of abuse that began when he was seven years old. His stepfather, a deputy sheriff and martial-arts expert, liked to punch him in the chest and slap him on the head. When he went through a bed-wetting period between the ages of seven and 12, the stepfather beat him with a 2-in.-wide belt. After hearing the boy's tale, the jury found Marquez guilty of the reduced...