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...black unit's mission eventually became the pursuit of power and influence for its own sake, but its primary purpose was to foster a global looting operation that bilked depositors of billions of dollars. Price Waterhouse, the accounting firm whose audit triggered the worldwide seizure of B.C.C.I. assets earlier this month, says the disarray is so extreme that the firm cannot even put together a coherent financial statement. But investigators believe $10 billion or more is missing, fully half of B.C.C.I.'s worldwide assets...
...injustices -- has shown an unprecedented ability to correct itself. Certainly we must become more aware of other cultures and their contributions. But the top priority should be to equip children for life in the modern world, to preserve and expand the unity America needs to function better, for the sake of all, and to avoid the destructive effects of intellectual tribalism...
...consumer models won't exactly ride like the grunt versions. Seats will be more heavily padded, and the doors will be made of steel rather than fiber glass, for safety's sake. LTV hopes to sell 1,000 of the Humvees this year at a price from $40,500 to $44,000, which is about twice as much as a Jeep Cherokee costs but about the same as a Range Rover. The first customer to enlist was the Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Good thing the manufacturers removed the missile launcher and cannon...
...sentimental environmentalists will call this saving nature with a totally wrong frame of mind. Exactly. A sane -- a humanistic -- environmentalism does it not for nature's sake...
...DOUBT, the infant mortality/abortion rights connection will not sway the most ardent opponents of abortion. If a nine-week fetus is the moral equivalent of a baby, then there is no inconsistency in letting more post-birth babies die for the sake of an equal or greater number of "unborn babies." But the vast majority of the American population (and, arguably, the U.S. Congress) does not accept the radical equation of fetus and baby. Even George Bush agreed with other world leaders at the recent World Summit for Children that "there can be no task nobler than giving every child...