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...political-action committees. PACs, which bundle money from people of similar special interests, engender candidates with narrow agendas that contribute to legislative gridlock. We should just get rid of PACs altogether. It will heal a lot of electoral ulcers and still permit individuals who care about issues to contribute on their...
...most shocking racist incidents of the civil rights movement, the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which killed four children. "It's a crime that has gone unsolved except one local conviction and it remains a sore part of American history that we would like to heal," said Joseph Lewis, FBI special agent in charge in Birmingham. "We feel we have an opportunity to do so this time and we want to take one last shot at it." Since the 1963 attack, only one person, Ku Klux Klansman Robert Edward Chambliss, has been convicted. The FBI believes...
...American culture and, by use of the death penalty, turn people in our society into murderers. Let us take that power away from the McVeighs and expend our efforts in defining ourselves. I don't believe we are a nation of killers. Our compassion, our creativity, our potential to heal and be gracious and forgiving should prevail at times of pain and loss. We are better people than our eagerness to be executioners would indicate. ROBERT H. ILES San Jose, Calif...
...lose," contends Jerry Maatman, a partner at Chicago's Baker & McKenzie, who in 1989 hit upon the idea of offering companies "audits" of their personnel practices--and so their vulnerability to a discrimination suit. "Our job is to find out what's wrong and then be a doctor and heal them," he says. And judging merely by the pending suits in his own city, there is still a good deal of healing...
...survivors know that "closure" is a cruel hoax, that the hole McVeigh created in their lives can't be filled by court proceedings, verdicts, even executions. Perhaps that is why a surprising number of them emerged this week to say they oppose death for McVeigh and believe they will heal faster if he is spared. No research indicates that survivors are more "satisfied" or that their anguish is lessened when the murderer is put to death. "What [survivors] are doing when they look for someone else's death is to deal with the crime and punishment," says Pat Bane, executive...