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...trial hearing? It is a gnarled mutation of the American criminal justice system, distorted by the same television "news" organizations that purport to reveal the true system to Americans. In a perfunctory attempt to separate themselves from other televisual entertainment, the TV news media has pounced on these grave issues with a cynical ferocity that could be well described as vulturine, if such a characterization did not insult a species which actually performs an ultimately useful function in nature...
Books: White Man's Grave is a novel of wickedness...
Richard Dooling is impartially derisive in his caustic second novel, White Man's Grave (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 386 pages; $22). He chucks a custard pie at every face that shows itself. There's Randall Killigan, an Indianapolis attorney who glories in the dismemberment allowed by bankruptcy law: the wrenching of great financial chunks from the carcasses of not-quite-dead companies. And there's young Boone Westfall, newly employed to reject legitimate claims at his father's sleazy insurance company. "Why do you think they call it work?" Dad asks, when Boone objects that cheating widows and orphans is tedious...
...United States' reaction to North Korea's initial public move towards nuclear arms--its withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty--was to send defensive hardware to Japan. Only grave concerns about North Korea's potential for belligerency could have caused the U.S. to send arms to Japan, a nation whose growing economic predominance has been grudgingly accepted by Americans...
...Western powers have not used what meager authority they have to force the factions into more humane behavior. The U.N. Security Council two years ago asked the five-member Commission of Experts to investigate reports of atrocities. A year ago, after the panel concluded that "grave breaches" of international law had been committed, the Security Council created an 11-judge international court to deal with them. Little has happened since. The judges "are like firemen polishing their engines, waiting for a fire," says an international lawyer. They have prepared rules of procedure and evidence, but the court's offices...