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...like a relic. "I have this image," says Roger Conner, executive director of Washington's liberal American Alliance for Rights & Responsibilities, "of human beings as porcupines, with rights as their quills. When the quills are activated, people can't touch each other." That touchiness, Conner adds, "is the visible fruit of the rise of self-absorbed individualism" over the past several decades. "The R word in our language is responsibility, and it has dropped from the policy dialogue in America. A society can't operate if everyone has rights and no one has responsibilities...
...FRUIT LOOPY. Kids, Uncle Sam wants you to eat more fruit with your cereal! But if you're poor, you can't get them in the same box. The $2.4 billion federal ( program that feeds 5 million needy children will not pay for cereal with more than six grams of sugar per serving. Kellogg protests that this excludes its Raisin Bran, because the sugar naturally contained in its raisins pushes it over the limit. So the kids eat mainly Cheerios and have to get their fruit separately...
...credit as a Cal Coolidge conservative, President Bush does not interfere with the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, the United States. Since all agree that the country's internal affairs are in woeful shape, this should give the Democrats a fine opportunity to pelt him with rotten fruit and dead cats in the most important political yard sale of the quadrennium, next February's New Hampshire primary. Here in New Hampshire, however, we are looking at our watches and asking, "What Democrats? What primary...
...trade restrictions seem to have had little economic impact. The U.S. and other nations continued to import vital raw materials, such as chromium and platinum, for which South Africa is the major world source. The products that the West would not buy, chiefly coal and fruit, found new markets in Asia, the Middle East and, of all places, black Africa. Nearly every African country south of the Sahara trades with Pretoria...
...Army has mobilized a reported 200,000 reservists, most of them Serbs, and beefed up its strength at bases along Croatia's eastern border in an effort to preserve national unity. In response, the republic's nationalist leader, Franjo Tudjman, warned, "If our efforts for peace bear no fruit, the whole population will rise...