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Hillary Clinton, whose appearance was in doubt until China released the jailed human rights critic and U.S. citizen Harry Wu last month, spoke out against the host country's behavior in terms that the U.N. organizers could not quite manage. Without naming China outright, she delivered a rebuke to the way it denied perhaps as many as 10,000 visas to prospective delegates and quarantined the Huairou forum in slapdash quarters 30 miles north of the capital. As her audience thumped desks and applauded loudly, Clinton declaimed, "It is indefensible that many women in nongovernmental organizations who wished to participate...
...RISING TORRENT of anti-ATF rhetoric has nurtured the perception that ATF agents are justifiable targets for heckling, if not outright assassination, an attitude that Ron Noble, Under Secretary of the Treasury for enforcement, likens to the 1960s protest ethos that branded all police officers "pigs." ATF's opponents, he says, don't loathe the bureau itself, just the laws it must enforce. "So what do you do?" he asks. "You attack an agency that not very many people know a lot about." Says a supervisory agent: "If you can't get the laws overturned, you pound on the agents...
Team O.J., however, is hoping for the big score: an outright acquittal. Without one, Simpson must remain in jail awaiting a second trial, and his expensive lawyers must weigh the image costs of abandoning the case once they've depleted O.J.'s fortune. But to get one, Simpson may have to testify. "The thinking of lawyers is that he can't get acquitted unless he takes the stand,'' says Los Angeles defense attorney Andrew Stein. The risk is that he would then have to withstand cross-examination on every piece of circumstantial evidence, but Stein for one believes he might...
...Cosmodrome, furthermore, is deteriorating rapidly from the harsh desert climate, from neglect and from outright theft and vandalism. Leaky roofs allow rainwater to flood the interiors of assembly buildings, and some of the launching pads are no longer usable. "People steal anything, even copper cable or sheet metal from the roofs of buildings," reports Sergei Leskov, a space correspondent for Izvestia. Last year a supply rocket reached Mir with part of its complement of food missing--evidently looted on the ground by launch crews. The danger is not so much of an accident, say U.S. space experts...
People like pop culture -- that's what makes it popular. Movies drenched in sex and gore, gangsta rap, even outright pornography are not some sort of alien interstellar dust malevolently drifting down on us, but products actively sought out and beloved by millions. When fighting to abolish the NEA and other government support for the arts, conservatives are quick to condemn "cultural alitism" and exalt the majority tastes served by the marketplace. So how can they turn around and blame entertainment corporations for following the money and giving mass audiences what they want? Talk about alitism...