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...history of Sierra Leone, stunningly told by journalist Campbell ('The Road to Kosovo,' 1999)...Readers of Campbell's horrific tale - from killing fields to corporate boardrooms and all the seedy, murderous, and pathetic characters that fall between - who don't demand proof-of-source on any diamond purchase ought to have their ethics examined...
...about the domestic spying that goes along with increased security measures to guard against terrorism [NATION, June 10]? Well, does anyone have a better idea? I don't care if I'm spied upon, and there are people who do things we need to fear. I think the government ought to hammer them. Why don't we support the agencies that are trying to protect us, rather than try to tie their hands? (MSGT) TERRY NEES U.S.M.C. (RET.) Bartlesville, Okla...
...sponsor chooses to act on that information and insider trade, that's his responsibility," says Robert Temple, director of the FDA's oncology-drug evaluation group. And last week, without naming names, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill suggested a solution to the escalating crisis of executives abusing trust. "We ought to hang them from the very highest branches." --With reporting by Andrew Goldstein/Washington and Unmesh Kher and Julie Rawe/New York
Beyond the Washington bickering, the question remains: Can the government really help create lasting marriages? No one knows. The few studies that have been done are promising but utterly inconclusive, which is O.K. by Horn. "Government ought not to be paralyzed by a lack of perfect knowledge," he says. "I believe that we ought to not be afraid to change if we're not getting the results we want. If it doesn't work, then we go on to something else." And by that, he doesn't mean divorce...
...York are so blessed to have an attorney general who just showed what it was like to be a Democrat," James Carville, Bill Clinton's old political guru, gushed in his keynote address to a party convention in New York City last month. "General Spitzer, I think they ought to nominate you as Democrat of the Year...