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...ethics panel has other fish to fry. Members reportedly have sent Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wy.), one of Packwood's chief defenders, a letter asking how he managed to obtain the statements by two witnesses in its Packwood investigation that he discussed last Thursday on ABC-TV's "Nightline." (One statement said a woman who accused Packwood of sexual misconduct had herself made advances on him.) Simpson, who has accused Packwood critics of leaking unfavorable material, told the Associated Press today that he was simply circulating the "other side" of the story...
That is an awful lot of information about a room Carcaterra never saw. How did he obtain it? Well, the author says, details about the vendor were invented. "Is he Greek? Maybe. Is he Hispanic? Could be, whatever." No. "Whatever" won't do as the ruling principle of a book that purports to tell the truth...
...months ahead to refashion the spending and tax bills that will be required to implement the plan, which only sets budgetary outlines. In other budget matters, a $16.4 billion package of cuts in the current year's budget-originally vetoed by the President but since modified by Republicans to obtain his support-was stalled just before the July 4 recess by two Senate Democrats who said the cuts were still too drastic...
...city. Moreover, it now appears that despite protestations it would never do so, the U.N. had in fact made a deal in which it agreed, among other things, not to conduct air strikes against the Serbs if they released the remaining U.N. peacekeepers they were holding hostage. To obtain the hostages' freedom, the U.N. traded away the only deterrent to which the Serbs have ever responded--NATO air strikes. For example, the heavy-weapons "exclusion zone" extending 12 miles around the city was enforced by the threat of air strikes. Now the Serbs seem to be free to bomb...
...pornography is different on the computer networks. You can obtain it in the privacy of your home--without having to walk into a seedy bookstore or movie house. You can download only those things that turn you on, rather than buy an entire magazine or video. You can explore different aspects of your sexuality without exposing yourself to communicable diseases or public ridicule. (Unless, of course, someone gets hold of the computer files tracking your online activities, as happened earlier this year to a couple dozen crimson-faced Harvard students...