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With Vietnam, American liberalism entered a period of profound isolationism. Just about every subsequent intervention, from Nicaragua to Kuwait, aroused loud liberal protest. The high-water mark was reached on Jan. 12, 1991, when Democrats led the fight to deny President Bush authority to use force against Iraq -- and came within three votes of carrying the Senate...
...Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms knew Koresh had been tipped off before its initial February raid; ATF head Stephen Higgins promptly expressed a willingness to resign. And during a hearing in the House, Michigan Congressman John Conyers Jr. exploded at Attorney General Janet Reno, calling the government's actions "a profound disgrace to law enforcement" and implying she was trying to "rationalize" the deaths. With emotion, Reno responded, "I feel more strongly about ((them)) than you will ever know...
...months on the job. But it is her performance under pressure that has sealed her stature in the capital. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Waco disaster last week, Reno found herself under fire from Congressman John Conyers Jr. The outcome at Waco, Conyers declaimed, was "a profound disgrace to law enforcement in the United States of America." As for Reno, he continued, "You did the right thing by offering to resign. And now I'd like you to know that there is at least one member of Congress that isn't going to rationalize the death...
...unrestrained growth and infinite success is over. The Japan that is experiencing its most profound dislocations since its resurrection from World War II hardly looks any longer like the all-devouring Godzilla of Western myth. Former French Prime Minister Edith Cresson's publicly voiced fear of Japan's "desire to conquer the world" sounds off-key, and American workers can stop their bitter jokes about how they will all be laboring for Japanese bosses...
...Chocolate, set mostly in Mexico's turbulent 1910s. While the eldest sister (mesmerized, of course, by Tita's food) runs off naked to join Zapata's forces of independence, Tita stays at home to mix her own sweet subversion into her food. As the movie proves, the most profound revolutions are the oldest -- the ones women have been cooking up since the cave days...