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...couple of reporters and a journalism professor sit before an audience and chew over subjects like "Everybody Thinks We're Scum, and No Wonder: Reflections on Public Mistrust of the Media." Grimly, the nonprofits commission polls to take the public's temperature, and the results are unvarying: reporters rank somewhere below concentration-camp guards, nobody believes what he reads in the newspaper, and so on. And the results are then duly reported in (of course) the newspaper...
...Gore have the closest personal and professional relationship of any President and Vice President in history. Nonetheless, Presidents are notorious for demanding unwavering loyalty from subordinates without ever contemplating returning that loyalty, and Clinton has already demonstrated that he is no exception. He is concerned about how historians will rank him as a President. If he is forced to choose between a policy decision that will burnish his image and one that will advance Gore's candidacy, it is unlikely that Gore's interests will prevail. NATHANIEL H. KAROL Highland Park...
...mechanics behind the election favors the two-party system. The voting system, called "proportional representation," allows voters to rank their candidates from one to nine according to their preference. After one candidate is elected, his or her ballots are transferred to the next candidate listed on the ballot...
JAMES HEIPLE Baby Richard judge is censured for pulling rank to dodge traffic tickets. He did it the wrong...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland: Ignoring the prosecution's request to give Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson life behind bars, a court-martial jury sentenced the former drill sergeant to 25 years in prison. Jurors also ordered that Simpson be dishonorably discharged and reduced to the rank of private E-1. The prosecution made an impassioned plea for jurors to deliver the maximum penalty of life in prison, arguing that it would "send a message" to other military personnel. Incredibly, Simpson's defense attorney, Frank Spinner, countered that Simpson's exposure had taught him a lesson and that the jury should...