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Failing to rein Clinton's war power, he seemed hypocritical and weak...
...incorrect his speech may be. Likewise, as American citizens, every one of us has the right to receive fair treatment at the hands of the law--regardless of what we might choose to do in bed with a consenting partner. We trust that the Colorado court which recently gave rein to Mansfield's freedom of speech will guarantee an equally vital freedom, the freedom to love one another without fear, to a ten percent segment of the population. We urge all members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community to recognize the hurtfulness and the patronizing contempt inherent in professor Mansfield...
...reformers in Moscow, freed from parliamentary veto, will have to deliver on some of the promises. Yeltsin had already reappointed his reformer in chief, Yegor Gaidar, as Deputy Prime Minister, the post he lost last December under pressure from parliament. Gaidar says his top priority will be to rein in inflation, which was running at 21% a month in September and at a predicted rate...
...problems) into a fight for free speech. By the end of the movie the Federal Communications Commission has been sent in to stop the show. As if painting the school's administrators as automatons enforcing social pressure on teenagers is not enough, the writer brings in the Feds to rein-force the "Sixteen Candles' meets 1984" theme of the film...
...will call on the best they have. Yitzhak Rabin has said time and again that Israel must rise above its complexes and trust the world. Palestinians will have to mature politically and start taking care of business. Both partners will have to rein in their fanatics, when zealotry threatens not just their own but the other side...