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...federal court's argument that claims of discrimination are simply irrelevant focuses only on the outcome. What the court says, basically, is that judges must stand above the democratic fray, and thus fairness is not an accurate standard for their elections. Because judges are not political, judicial elections need not adhere to federal standards...
...both categories remain eternally attractive to publishers, if only because they offer the potential for a targeted, cohesive audience to suit particular kinds of advertisers. Thus half a dozen well-financed rivals of the traditional men's magazines have arrived or are poised to enter the fray, even at a time when all publications are hard pressed to hold on to advertisers. Warns Charles Elbaum, president of Publishing Economics, a media consulting firm: "The pie has been sliced too many times for them all to survive...
...have fought for the same high-sounding reasons: honor, glory or revenge. The nature of their real and perhaps not conscious motivations is a subject of much debate. Some anthropologists postulate a ) murderous instinct, almost unique among living species, in human males. Others discern a materialistic motive behind every fray: a need for slaves, grazing land or even human flesh to eat. Still others point to the similarities between war and other male pastimes -- the hunt and outdoor sports -- and suggest that it is boredom, ultimately, that stirs men to fight...
...detect, with the help of U.S. satellites, any Iraqi preparations for a missile launch. Once Baghdad begins placing its missiles on launchers, Israel and the U.S. expect to have five or six hours to coordinate a response before the missiles can be fired. To keep Israel out of the fray, Washington may volunteer to take out the missiles, but Shamir will require some convincing. Says Defense Minister Moshe Arens: "Nobody will do the job for us. We can do it, and we should...
...action hasn't yet been made in most places." One reason is that the Persian Gulf crisis has dominated the news and overshadowed the hard-to-focus outrage at the S&L debacle. Further, many entrenched incumbents raised so much money so early that worthy rivals never entered the fray...