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...true that Scott Krueger was drinking while under 21 and that the members of this fraternity in all likelihood encouraged this. However, there are other people who could have helped prevent such a tragic incident from occurring. First, one needs to consider whether or not Krueger had been exposed to alcohol and/or the dangers of the drug before using it. Did his parents discuss drinking and its effects with him? Was he aware of his own limits when it came to drinking...
...Clinton obviously wants to avoid another independent counsel -- if he were to evade interviews, he'd just be increasing the likelihood that Reno would appoint one." And how great is that likelihood? With a month still left on the 90-day clock Reno started on September 8, Shannon says even the attorney general doesn't know yet. "She has a history of going down to the wire." But with Republican appetites for scandal considerably curbed of late, Clinton knows that this time around, with these investigators, ignorance of the law could well be all the excuse he needs...
...many, many ways. Assuming his new liver takes, which to date it has, Hunter will be on immunosuppressants for the rest of his life. In the first year alone, that will cost him about $1,500 a month. The likelihood that, as Shotgun Shane Sawyer, he will ever again wrestle is virtually nil. As he heals physically, he must be on guard for the intense feelings of anger, even depression, that typically besiege transplant patients. And he should make peace with his managed-care provider as soon as possible. For someone with a "pre-existing" medical condition like Hunter...
Congress votes today on the Western Hemisphere Drug Elimination Act, a $2.3 billion military aid package which, many believe, will reduce the flow of illicit drugs into the U.S by 80 percent. In all likelihood, the bill will pass; with the strong support of the Republican leadership, and with midterm elections weeks away, no Senator or Representative will want to appear "soft on drugs" by opposing it. Unfortunately, it appears that a catchy name and the appeal of counter-drug legislation have concealed the content of a bill full of disastrous foreign policy...
Despite the 1998 Leahy Amendment, which prohibits U.S. military aid to foreign soldiers guilty of human rights abuses, the current bill drastically increases the likelihood that U.S. military aid will aid the hemisphere's worst human rights abusers. Colombia, where much of the bill's aid will go, has suffered an average of 10 political killings per day since 1988, many of which have been committed by paramilitary death squads with close ties to the Colombian security forces...