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...have a clear conscience." So said the former President of Peru, Alan Garcia Perez, now a Senator for Life, before the Chamber of Deputies mustered a narrow majority last week to begin proceedings to lift his congressional immunity from prosecution on charges that he embezzled $500,000 from public coffers and evaded taxes...
...life, liberty, or property." It's an illuminating difference. Furthermore, the Constitution does not guarantee these values in absolute terms. It protects them only from deprivation by the government itself, and even in that regard it promises only procedural fairness and equal treatment. The authors were surely wise to narrow the focus. What would be left of democracy if judges could roam the landscape striking down anything that -- in their opinion -- interfered with somebody's pursuit of happiness...
Challenging these groups from the left is Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), founded in 1986. Headed by Jeff Cohen, a liberal commentator who is convinced that the media by and large favor the Establishment, FAIR seeks to focus "public awareness on the narrow corporate ownership of the press, the media's persistent cold war assumptions and their insensitivity to women, labor, minorities and other public interest constituencies." Its eclectic board includes writer Studs Terkel, pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, renowned thespians Daryl Hannah and Edward Asner, singer Jackson Browne and third-tier rock star Steve Van Zandt, the former guitarist with...
Some of the media watchdogs have an extremely narrow focus. Lies of Our Times is an ultra-left-wing monthly produced by the Institute for Media Analysis, based, not terribly surprisingly, in New York City's Greenwich Village. Established in 1990, it has as its particular focus the "lies" that appear in "the most cited news medium in the U.S." -- the New York Times. As a bonus, the monthly also reports on "hypocrisies, misleading emphases and hidden premises," all for $2.50 an issue. Board members of the institute include such unapologetic leftists as Noam Chomsky, Alexander Cockburn and Ramsey Clark...
...public places. Farther north, on the island of Ponza, a favorite vacation spot for Romans, officials have banned automobiles until the end of August. The last straw, say residents, was the hundreds of cars that rolled off the ferries from the mainland every day last summer, choking the narrow roads and causing loathsome pollution and noise...