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That was four years ago. On a street corner in northwestern Washington one evening last week, Barry stood on top of a ladder, his arms wrapped around a telephone pole, as a passing car came to a sudden stop. A young woman shouted from the car, "Hey, Marion Barry, you're gonna be mayor again!" Barry turned, a green campaign poster in one hand and a staple gun in the other, and acknowledged the endorsement with a smile. Across the street Kevin Britton, an elementary-school gym teacher, explained that he too wants the former three- term mayor back...
...sure, many respected economists flatly deny that any capital crunch is looming. Robert Eisner of Northwestern University argues that economic growth around the world will raise people's incomes and thereby provide the savings to finance new investments without jacking up interest rates. "Greater output means greater income, and that means greater savings," he says...
...that magnanimous message has been undercut by reports of rebels killing the Hutu as they flee the country. In the huge camps of northwestern Tanzania, a number of refugees are telling stories of massacres that they claim are committed by the R.P.F. Those tales are difficult to confirm -- and the rebels argue that they have been planted by militia in the camps as a way of deflecting blame from their own misdeeds -- but the effect is the same. The Tutsi have a long way to go before convincing all Hutu that their intentions are genuine and that the cycle...
...juries don't." Legal scholars say juries have always been unpredictable, refusing to bend to controls the authorities hope to impress on them. "The tradition is that juries are the ultimate arbiter of law, not judges and not the state," says Anthony D'Amato, a law professor at Northwestern University. "And if they think the law is ridiculous, juries may ignore it. Instinctively, juries are getting it that they don't have to listen to the judge's instructions...
...Violence directed against employers or former employers is the fastest- growing category of workplace violence," says Joseph Kinney, executive director of the National Safe Workplace Institute in Chicago. And deaths are only the worst outcome of the problem: a 1993 survey by Northwestern National Life Insurance suggests that more than 2 million employees suffer physical attacks on the job each year and more than 6 million are threatened in some way. "They run the gamut from anonymous love letters on secretaries' desks to feces smeared on men's room walls to death threats sent to CEOs' homes to workers talking...