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...defendant has a constitutional right to face his accuser. There should be another constitutional right which allows the accuser to face the defendant. The unnamed defendant is getting off scott-free in the Baltes case. While the right to face one's accusers was created to guard against haphazard or trumped-up charges, the right of the accuser to face the defendant, which would serve in the meting out of justice, is nowhere to be found...
...because I build stamina -- it takes a lot to get through a cha-cha." Other converts appreciate the discipline and challenge of an activity that cannot be faked. "Ballroom dancing cannot be learned by watching American Bandstand," says David Allmuth, a Sacramento construction worker. "The moves are articulate, not haphazard like rock-'n'-roll dancing...
Central to the movie should be his music, but the filmmakers treat it with haphazard indifference. The song selection is bafflingly random, omitting seminal and important songs like "I Am the Walrus" or "Instant Karma" and including less noteworthy and more obscure titles like "How" and "Love." All the songs, even "Imagine" itself, are abbreviated, with the curious exception of "Twist and Shout," which Lennon didn't compose. Beatles producer George Martin, who expertly handled sound-mixing chores on virtually all the band's recordings and soundtracks over the last 25 years, should be strung...
More substantively, says a Bush adviser, "the instinct for change is stronger in California than in any other state." Suburbanites may still be generally anti-tax, but their allegiance is being divided by other concerns. They are worried about haphazard commercial growth in residential neighborhoods, gridlocked traffic and parking shortages, air pollution, poor schools -- all problems that seem to call for the governmental solutions that Democrats traditionally favor and Republicans oppose...
...strange mix of Buddhism, socialism and isolationism -- but instead allowed a potentially robust economy to drift on a joyless ride down a Burmese road to ruin. Once Asia's premier rice exporter and a country rich in oil, grain, gems and timber, Burma slipped into abject impoverishment, thanks to haphazard central planning, mismanagement and an unbending policy of self-sufficiency. While resources were devoted to a four-decade struggle with tribal guerrilla armies around the country, annual per capita income sank from $670 in 1960 to $190 in 1987, according to the World Bank. The United Nations lists Burma among...