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...raises and then thrillingly answers. Iris Chase is a brilliant addition to Atwood's roster of fascinating fictional narrators. Not only is her story sinuously complex, but she is entertaining company. Her comments on her story are crotchety and amusing: "The bank has Roman pillars, to remind us to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, such as those ridiculous services charges." She is also frank about her occasional evasions: "I look back over what I've written and I know it's wrong, not because of what I've set down, but because of what...
...shield. The CIA also warned the White House last week that Beijing might respond to a U.S. missile defense by increasing its strategic missile force tenfold. China now has 20 nuclear-tipped ICBMs, but the CIA worries that it might expand that force so a U.S. shield doesn't render its strategic deterrence worthless. That's a possibility that's very real, and Washington has to take it seriously. The CIA intelligence on North Korea is based as much on guesswork as on hard facts, but the agency knows that China can ramp up its force...
...there is an issue in play here that seems to have been ignored: Al Gore was right. He insisted on keeping the ultimate choice available to a woman, and refused to consider an alternative that would effectively render the fetus a ward of the state even against the will of the mother. The vice president clung to a fundamental tenet of the pro-choice movement: Until a woman gives birth, the burgeoning existence inside her must belong absolutely to her. No prison guard, and certainly no legislator, should be able to take away that autonomy...
CLEARED. The U.S. government, of responsibility for the deaths of some 80 Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, during the 1993 siege by federal agents; by an advisory panel of jurors in a wrongful-death suit brought by relatives and surviving cult members; in Waco. A federal judge will render the final verdict...
Some contend that John Rocker's arguments in that fateful Sports Illustrated interview do not render him worthy of punishment. Famed conservative commentator Dennis Prager has defended Rocker to the hilt. In The Weekly Standard, Prager wrote that Rocker's disparaging remarks about Manhattan and its minority inhabitants "merit as little attention as comic books"--not the "hysteria" that the closing pitcher has received. On his talk show, Prager asserted that Rocker was simply exercising his freedom of speech and had never taken any action against the people who commute on the No. 7 subway train. Why shouldn...