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...core of Bush's pitch was hardly surprising. Sounding like a born-again preacher of Reaganomics, the President promised to "stimulate entrepreneurial capitalism, not punish it." He argued for lower taxes, less federal spending, less regulation. To make America an "export superpower," Bush proposed an expansive network of free-trade arrangements going well beyond the North | American Free Trade Agreement now pending. For the Beltway bureaucracy bashers, he offered to cut the salaries of higher-paid government officials and to pare the White House operating budget by one-third -- if Congress does the same...
...response was amended to include a category called "sexual negligence," intended to punish nonconsentual sex while not treating it as rape. The term encompasses acts in which the initiator "fails to elicit consent resulting in the physical or psychological harm of the victim...
...response was amended to include a category called "sexual negligence," intended to punish nonconsentual sex while not treating it as rape. The term encompasses acts in which the initiator "fails to elicit consent resulting in the physical or psychological harm of the victim...
...wise for the West -- or is it required of the West -- to intervene with military force in the Balkans? Does the new world order that George Bush espouses encompass a minimal moral code, starting with the command of the Holocaust-inspired international convention on genocide to "prevent and to punish" mass killings of ethnic groups? Or is Secretary of State James Baker right to argue that in Yugoslavia -- and by extension in other bloody ethnic conflicts in countries not central to the immediate stability of the West -- "we don't have a dog in that fight...
...tactics of the Fascists, who disregarded constitutional rights and democratic principles to jail suspected mobsters, succeeded in quashing the Mob for a time. But memories of that dictatorship left Italy with a postwar constitution designed to prevent strong government. After Falcone's death in May, Rome issued decrees to punish Mob suspects who refuse to cooperate and gave police expanded powers to make arrests. Last week the Senate converted some of those into law. Borsellino's murder has stirred calls for martial law and a return to the death penalty. While such notions are gaining support, they have no chance...