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...only the fortunes of missile defense advocates that may be profoundly altered by Jeffords' turn. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan will, no doubt, be relieved that the fate of the hundreds of millions of dollars Washington owes his organization will no longer be captive to the whims of Senator Jesse Helms, who has in the past made agreements dependent on such rather strange conditions as a guarantee that the U.N. would refrain from taking control...
...city's mean streets, doing good deeds, one of which consists of saving Sharon's life during a shoot-out. You know, of course, that he is the grieving accident victim, atoning for the beloved lives he thinks he has carelessly wasted. You can guess, can't you, that fate means they will fall in love--especially since Sharon's relationship with her family (father, mother, wife-beating brother) is as fractious as her would-be lover's was idyllic...
...Every country is its own laboratory of democracy. Still, some general rules apply. Elections don't necessarily guarantee liberal democracy; but you can't have liberal democracy without free and fair elections. Totalitarianism won't deliver the economic goods; the fate of the Soviet Union proved that. But at a certain level of development, your economy can grow even if your political arrangements remain autocratic. In that case, you may find, however - as the ruling élite in Mexico did - that economic reform increases popular pressure for governments that are truly accountable. (Wouldn't it be nice...
...this sort of anti-guerrilla operation in the mountains, and there is always a great danger that if they inflict civilian casualties in the Albanian villages where the rebels are hiding, the fragile unity government that involves the main ethnic-Albanian parties could collapse, which could seal the fate of multiethnic Macedonia...
...bitter convolution of fate that Gilchrist should be based in Oklahoma City, the last place one would expect to find compelling arguments against the death penalty. Her story can't help but give Oklahomans pause about the quality of justice meted out by their courts. Says Gilchrist's lawyer, Melvin Hall: "The criticism of her around here is second only to that of Timothy McVeigh." But the allegations also underscore a national problem: the sometimes dangerously persuasive power of courtroom science. Juries tend to regard forensic evidence more highly than they regard witnesses because it is purportedly more objective...