Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's nothing new about tensions between federal prosecutors and locals, especially the ones who are targets of the prosecution. It is after all part of the purpose of U.S. Attorneys to remain aloof from the natives' habits of mutual back scratching and looking the other way. So at least some of the talk around Little Rock against Starr sounds like sour grapes from a hometown nexus of business, law and government that likes to keep its dealings, including the dubious ones, within the family. Yet there are still some valid questions about prosecutorial overreach...
...anything good comes out of this dark episode in American politics, it will be a re-examination of the ill-conceived laws that made it possible. Perhaps Democrats and Republicans, in an act of mutual disarmament, will finally let the law expire when it comes up for a reauthorization vote next year. And perhaps the Supreme Court will seize the opportunity presented in several cases this year to refine the definition of harassment in ways that recall its core meaning of sex discrimination in the workplace. Finally, Congress could acknowledge that the Supreme Court was too optimistic in the Clinton...
...Arcy said Elster is distancing himself from the University. "He can't go back to Harvard," he said. "It's a voluntary separation...a mutual choice...
...Cuban official close to Castro says the President was immensely "impressed in personal terms" and that a "mutual sympathy" developed between these two formidable men. They discovered common bonds in their goals. "Notwithstanding their philosophical differences," says this official, "they are two strong believers in the capacity of the human being to improve, to be a better man, to build a better society." For the aging revolutionary, there is no greater sin than quitting. In John Paul II he saw a man who has stuck by his principles, no matter what the opposition. He liked the Pope's resolute style...
...other possibility, of course, is that as women are recruited into fandom, the men will flee. The Super Bowl will come to resemble an evening at Chippendales, with thousands of women gaily cheering the players on to new heights of mutual destruction. And what will be left for the American male to do? Maybe go out and toss a few balls, assuming anyone remembers...