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...that the practice of compensating favored customers for losses is uncommon in Japan, nor is it necessarily illegal. Government regulations only forbid companies from promising "in advance" that a customer would be compensated if market losses occur. Then why the outrage? For one thing, the amounts paid to wealthy customers were large, estimated at $465 million for the Big Four firms, which cut into profits that should have gone to stockholders. Then there was the question of fair play in favoring big customers over small ones. Add to that the unsavory (but probably legal) loans to a crime boss...
...accordance with its new free speech guidelines, the University did not forbid a Kirkland student from publicly displaying a Confederate Flag although many said they found the symbol offensive and insensitive, calling it a symbol of Black oppression and slavery...
...court's ruling in Rust v. Sullivan made little medical or intellectual or moral sense. It does not forbid women to seek abortion counseling and referrals. But it narrows -- and in some cases may even eliminate -- access to such services for many poor and low-income women who cannot afford private medical advice, thereby placing informed choice beyond their reach. "For these women," Justice Harry Blackmun warned in a harsh dissenting opinion, "the government will have obliterated the freedom to choose as surely as if it had banned abortions outright." The court's action set pro- and anti- abortion advocates...
...last statutory vestiges of so-called petty apartheid -- lifted the ban on the African National Congress and freed many political prisoners, most prominently Nelson Mandela. Now De Klerk is about to pull down what are generally regarded as the last remaining legal pillars of apartheid: the laws that forbid blacks to live in white areas or < own land outside their tribal homelands and require that every South African be classified by race at birth. All are scheduled to be repealed by the white parliament before it concludes its term at the end of June...
...patronizing attitude toward small towners is more subtle but just as annoying. One episode makes snide fun of the tavern owner's 19-year-old girlfriend, who gets a satellite dish and becomes addicted to tacky TV fare like Wheel of Fortune and the Home Shopping Network. God forbid somebody in a remote Alaskan town should actually pass the time watching TV. What would Voltaire think...