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...time last year, as George Bush searched for a convincing rationale for transforming Desert Shield into Desert Storm, he seemed to believe that Americans were not prepared for this new era of limited challenges -- and limited victories. The President's rhetoric suggested the view that only if Saddam Hussein was painted as evil incarnate could Bush rally the people behind him. Left unopposed, the President declared, the takeover of Kuwait would allow Saddam to hold Western economies hostage. On the other hand, Bush hinted, an American victory would help usher in a new world order and improve prospects for peace...
Last week the Supreme Court waded into the debate with a 7-to-2 ruling that protects victims from being harassed on the witness stand with questions about their sexual history. The Justices, in their first decision on "rape shield laws," said an accused rapist could not present evidence about a previous sexual relationship with the victim unless he notified the court ahead of time. In her decision, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that "rape victims deserve heightened protection against surprise, harassment and unnecessary invasions of privacy...
Court documents also indicate that Senator Kennedy may have whisked his nephew out of town on Easter Sunday to shield him from a police interrogation about the incident and that the Senator himself ignored requests to speak with investigators. The Kennedy camp last week indignantly denied suggestions of impropriety. But police chief J.L. Terlizzese said his men were "definitely misled" and that the department was looking into why residents in the Kennedy home had not made themselves available to detectives...
...called himself the Grand Magus of the Sacred and Mystical Order of the Sword and Shield, said he dropped out of Harvard because he decided he "wasn't going to sell...
...sanctity of the individual went out and kicked some butt," he says. Or it may be that he feels no compunction to propose any answers to the problems he raises. Or perhaps it's that he often invokes the "I'm-just-kidding" defense as an all-purpose shield. But, hey, who can hold a grudge for long against a guy who explains that the Ottoman Empire got its name "because it had the same amount of intelligence and energy as a footstool"? O'Rourke simply calls them as he sees them...