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...According to critics, the suit shows how out of step the government has become with the rest of Europe and its own pro-Western urban élite. But it appears to revel in contrariness. "It's incredible how many conflicts they have produced in such a short time," said Jan Rokita, leader of the opposition Civic Platform party. The government has courted further controversy by setting up an "anticorruption" police force, controlled by the ruling party, with sweeping powers to probe serving officials and even private citizens. It re-opened an investigation into former (and still popular) President Aleksander Kwasniewski...
...switch. Margaret Callow Courbevoie, France Above the Law? While I believe that presidential wiretapping for political reasons is wrong, the National Security Agency (NSA) can read my e-mail and listen to my phone conversations all day long if it will help them find the bad guys. [Jan. 23] I don't think the NSA, the CIA or any other government agency will have time to weed through our everyday mail. They know whom to be suspicious of. I am sure they are trying desperately to find terrorists. Why would our government spend needless hours reading the e-mail...
...enumerate, including one about stealing when owning a late lead in a baseball game, struck me as extremely pertinent. Then I reached the end of the article, which bore the following disclaimer: “Rick Reilly is on vacation this week. This column first appeared in the Jan. 16, 1995, issue.” Over a decade old, I marveled, but not in the least bit outdated. That’s because there’s a certain timelessness to sports, baseball especially (the designated hitter is its only major innovation in the past century), that I cherish...
...congressional leadership have stirred up. Richard Zack New Providence, New Jersey, U.S. Power Politics Elliott would have us believe that resolving world conflicts is a simple choice between an American Big Brother and a power vacuum in which rogue nuclear states (he cites the threat of Iran) would evolve [Jan. 23]. That's too simple. Conflicts are most wisely resolved by a multinational process that listens to and understands the subtleties of cultural differences and proposes solutions that build trust and democratic consensus. Besides lacking the broad knowledge necessary, single states are concerned primarily with national interests. As de facto...
...options" if it can't get the U.S. to release duties impounded from Canadian lumber exporters. And, he added darkly, Canada is "running out of time" in its efforts to forestall the U.S. scheme to require Canadians (and Americans) to show passports before crossing the border by land, starting Jan...