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...Jersey another very rich Republican, Christine Todd Whitman, won the gubernatorial primary. In November she will face Democratic Governor Jim Florio, who became the object of Jerseyites' intense loathing after a $2.8 billion tax increase in 1990. A former state utilities regulator and a moderate, Whitman nearly beat New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley in an election three years ago by tying him to Florio. "We're going to be Florio-free," Whitman promises...
Historically, authorities have winked at "the world's oldest profession." If 100,000 German men a year choose to visit Thailand on package sex tours, who is to object? Only recently has anyone begun to ask how many of Thailand's 2 million prostitutes are minors; how many have been sold by parents or husbands as indentured servants to brothel owners; and how many have been kidnapped from villages in Burma, Laos and southern China to service the new breed of tourist. A 1991 conference of Southeast Asian women's organizations estimated that 30 million women had been sold worldwide...
...Phoenix Suns and the Chicago Bulls meet in the finals of the National Basketball Association play-offs this week, in a squaring-off of styles that the nation's sports fans have been anticipating all season, the collision of immovable force and irresistible object will be more reverberant than ever before. For despite the presence of two dozen redwoods in uniforms, the cameras, our eyes and endorsement makers will be focused on a clash of shaven- headed close friends: Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan. On paper, the league's Most Valuable Player this season vs. the greatest player...
Some lawmakers object to the minimum-wage stipend that participants would receive under the current plan. This money would supplement the $5,000 students would also be given per year of service to help pay for college tuition...
...kings and priests. In our own country, it took all kinds of hell-raising, including a war, to get across the simple notion that no person is morally entitled to own another. One generation's hallowed tradition -- slavery, or the divine right of kings -- may be another generation's object lesson in human folly...