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...take control of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun's doomed re-election campaign in its final days. "The First Lady was calling me up at home, in the office, from the road and from the White House with suggestions and ideas and a clear sense of what my personal priorities ought to be for October," Podesta says. Infuriated that even women had given up on Moseley-Braun, the First Lady assembled about 50 influential Democratic women in a hotel meeting room and gave them hell. "She talked about strategy and why one election matters, even if you don't live...
...conduct, he falsely described the particulars of that conduct?'" It was a lawyer's last stand, a final appeal to save a client from the congressional equivalent of indictment. In effect, Ruff was saying, "You know he lied and we know he lied. The only disagreement is what we ought to do about...
...ought to be enough that Hanks is a solid, supple actor who not only takes ornery subjects (AIDS, Vietnam, the U.S. space program) and turns them into hits (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump, Apollo 13), but also gives almost all his movies a moral center. In this age of the outlaw, he defines the ideal norm: he is our best us on our worst day, soldiering on through heartbreak. In Saving Private Ryan, for which he may earn his third Oscar as the tough, paternal Captain Miller, Hanks has a moment when the burden of leadership in war has nearly broken...
...high seas. These days there is considerable agreement that systematic torture and genocide are such heinous crimes that any country should be free to try those who are accused of them. "Some crimes go beyond boundaries," says Robert Pastor, a member of Carter's National Security Council, "and we ought to pursue them that way." So rather than extradite Pinochet, Britain could try him in an English court...
...them while they engage in lesser daily crimes before they move on to more serious ones." But most worrisome, says Barnes, is the political factor: "Police have learned that there is an incentive in an era of declining crime rates to downgrade the crimes they encounter and report." That ought to be a crime...