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...failed to adopt the message as his own. Throughout the improbable spectacle of a White House pitted against a sitcom character and her real-life defenders, there was a serious undercurrent. The growth in fatherless families, after all, is encouraged less by television than by welfare policies that punish poor mothers who marry -- policies that Bush and Quayle should change if they are serious about this subject...
...other countries that still punish by death, the technology of execution is simpler. A handful favor the headsman's ax or the even more ancient practice of stoning to death. The rest employ either the rope or the bullet, both of which have fallen into near total disuse in the U.S. Outside the U.S., capital punishment in the 1990s is usually associated with underdevelopment or lack of democracy, usually both. The death penalty no longer exists in any European Community country. Most of the nations of the former Soviet bloc have abolished it, and the rest are considering doing...
...when the white backlash against the ghetto riots of that era helped elect Richard Nixon. What Nixon understood then, and what a great deal of state and federal policy has reflected since then, is that the suburbs control the nation's political destiny. Voters there will punish any candidate who would have them transfer tax revenue back to the cities. And even if the new suburban majority could be persuaded to agree to massive urban aid, the damage wrought by the shift of wealth and jobs to the suburbs might be too much for mere social programs to remedy...
Furthermore, Harvard cannot simply refer all cases of sexual misconduct to the courts. A Cambridge jury's decision that no rape occurred would not preclude a violation of Harvard's standards for behavior. The court may find nothing wrong with they consider "mild" sexual misconduct---Harvard should punish all such misconduct...
...especially strong grass-roots support in Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley, a hotbed of Muslim resistance to communist rule. Angered by the new regime's failure to deal with corruption and a growing crime rate, local militants in the city of Namangan have organized local Islamic guard patrols, who punish offenders with religious indoctrination and the public pillory. Communist propaganda posters still decorate the streets, but the cry of "God is great!" echoing from the mosques has a more stirring effect on the local population. During afternoon prayers, the Islamic guards keep order among the steady stream of the faithful crowding...