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...Peninsula incident demonstrated the extent to which the Holocaust has become little more than a rhetorical grab bag, one that any Tom, Dick or Harry feels free to reach into any time he needs an argumentative trump-card. Similarly, the debate question exemplified the recklessness with which people tend to throw around the vocabulary of mass-destruction. You want to talk about the discrimination that exists in the criminal justice system, you call it a "genocide." You disagree with someone's brand of politics, you affix the Nazi swastika to his or her door--that seems to be the name...
...Allen, or even their respective parties. The pro-Longley spots come courtesy of the National Federation of Independent Business, the National Restaurant Association and a coalition of corporations led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The anti-Longley information was supplied by the AFL-CIO and, to a lesser extent, the American Association of Retired Persons. By taking advantage of a legal loophole in campaign-finance laws that permit so-called independent expenditures, special-interest groups are hogging the airwaves, phone lines and printshops in dozens of the most hotly contested congressional races around the country. In districts held...
...these pacific figures, Leigh adds shaking, saddened Cynthia -- and there lies the rub. Blethyn gives Cynthia all the delicacy and poise of a crack baby, at times almost frightening to watch. This portrayal works to a large extent and could probably stand on its own. She is, in truth, still a child who was thrust into playing the adult early on, and Blethyn's small, quavering voice further lends a perfect, little-girl feel to all her quirky little expressions ("I wouldn't know 'im if'e stood up in me soup...
...deliberated for 12 hours before finding Garcia Abrego guilty of masterminding the movement of almost 15 tons of cocaine into the United States and laundering $10.5 million. A sentence has not yet been handed down, but he is likely to face life imprisonment. Rumors are still flying about the extent to which Garcia Abrego managed to exploit a corrupt Mexican government to build a $2 billion a year drug business. Despite rumored links between Garcia Abrego and Raul Salinas, brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas, the trial testimony highlighted only corruption among certain low-level police officials...
...drastically muted the celebrations of the 500 year anniversary of his arrival in the Caribbean. Such protests are often jeered as "political correctness." But the historical record flatly contradicts this knee-jerk response. Certainly Columbus is not a hero because of his genocidal policies. And when you understand the extent of his barbarism, it is hard to view him as a hero in spite of his crimes. Such a flippant trivialization of mass murder would legitimize celebrating Hitler and Stalin as well...