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When a Wasp thought of his duty to the moral law, the guide he consulted was his own conscience. The conscience was a stern interior monitor. "In Adam's fall/ We sinned all," began the New England Primer. (They weren't big on self-esteem in the 18th century.) Conscience has the added advantage of being portable. Many cultures rely on peer pressure to enforce their rules and regulations. The Wasp with a conscience could feel guilty all by himself. Conscience also reinforced the work ethic: if you made good, you -- and everyone else -- knew that you were good...
...choice of the people. Several months ago, prospects looked good. The U.N. had brokered an agreement between the military leaders and the exiled President Aristide; the pact had called for Aristide's return. A force of lightly-armed U.N. peacekeepers, mainly from the U.S., was sent in September to monitor the peaceful transition of power...
Inside the hideout were a loaded .45 automatic handgun, a .32 revolver, plastic masks, wigs and fake mustaches and beard, burglary devices, ski hats, latex gloves and "a scanner to monitor police transmission and a book to help decode them," according to the Globe report...
APEC as a whole shied away from a suggestion that it monitor regional human- rights abuses, along with any notion that it should move toward trade-bloc status. The group even rejected a change in its awkward name -- Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans calls it "four adjectives in search of a noun" -- rather than label itself a "community." Reason: the term suggests the kind of integration that Asian nations say they want to avoid. And besides, said Hong Kong Financial Secretary Hamish Macleod, "People are a little wary of possibly being dominated by the U.S. I think the majority view...
Something has happened in the world, and we sense that it is along the lines of an Orwellian Big Brother phenomenon (could it be the television monitor perched near the ceiling, fixed on the characters below?). Ada and Meg (Yvonne Roemer and Calysta Drake) are chief-and assistant-washroom attendants, who encounter a series of women seeking a warm place to eat breakfast, to relieve themselves, and to expound their views on why men are wonderful and warm, beastly or boring...