Word: explains
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These dispositions help explain why voters are now being treated to a lavish round of political pandering. The cycle goes something like this. Some aggrieved group begins to complain: gas prices are too high, beef prices too low, liability insurance too burdensome, there's a salmon surplus driving coho prices down. Clinton and Dole rush in with their offers: sell off part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves (Clinton's offer), repeal the gas tax (Dole's offer). The moment one candidate makes a bid, his rival tops it. The immediate goal on both sides is simply to control the news...
...towns and cities where they wreaked such devastation, in a position to begin all over again. "The only way Bosnians will ever feel safe," says Ivan Lupas, a human-rights investigator, "is if those responsible for the killings are punished." Deputy prosecutor Blewitt says at the Hague, "People explain this war as revenge for atrocities done in the past that were never punished. We have got to stop that cycle." The countrymen of the perpetrators also need the balm of justice. "The only way we Serbs can escape collective guilt," says Human Rights Watch's Sonja Bisierka, "is to determine...
...Pentagon officials who support a ban say it is a matter of "military utility." They explain that strategic doctrine has changed in the past generation, and current plans rely far less on mines than did those appropriate for wars of attrition. The capabilities the U.S. now emphasizes are speed, stealth and surprise. Even the Army's current manual on mines questions their usefulness, given the unpredictability of friendly troop movements. The military's most dramatic show of support for a ban came in April, when several prominent retired officers, including Norman Schwarzkopf, signed a full-page ad that...
...what can explain the behavior of those who spent such outlandish sums to relieve Jackie's children of parcels of their property? Someone with the taste and means to drop a fortune on an Impressionist painting has at least the pleasure of owning and looking at something beautiful. What is the person who paid $85,000 for a cigarette lighter with an inscribed J on it supposed to do with the thing? Light cigarettes? Take it out at dinner parties and mention casually that it once belonged to Jackie? And wouldn't the other guests immediately loathe the confidence...
...apologist for Adolf Hitler." His works record the extermination of the Jews and provide evidence of Hitler's direct involvement. Irving is not an anti-Semite, nor is he a supporter of Hitler or Nazi Germany. His books, more than any others I have read, help explain what happened in Germany. If we are to prevent future exterminations, we have to eradicate hate. The process must start with free speech and the ability to discuss openly all aspects of history and express all viewpoints. Irving through his writing has made a large contribution toward preventing future Holocausts. JOSEF HOSE Madison...