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While Justice White's order will prolong the life of Autry and many other death-row inmates until the proportionality issue is decided, it does nothing to make future executions less likely. Says Texas Civil Liberties Union Executive Director John Duncan: "What we got was a short-term victory. I'm not at all optimistic about the long-term implications." Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox was not happy either. "It just seems to me that these considerations could have been made earlier," he said, "before you have a man strapped to the table with the saline solution going...
Established in 1944 to help member nations cope with immediate financial crises, the fund makes only short-term loans. The IMF is somewhat like an office credit union into which members put their savings to be drawn on when there is a need. The IMF calls its deposits "quotas," and each of its 146 members makes a contribution to a common pool from which it can borrow when it is squeezed for cash to pay its bills...
Troubles became clear last March, when Baldwin announced it was unable to pay $440 million in short-term debt. Baldwin negotiated a tide-me-over plan with its lenders, and Thompson was replaced in May by Victor Palmieri, the corporate-rescue specialist who had revived Penn Central. Said Palmieri last week: "Things at Baldwin were more confused than anyone could have imagined. A video-game designer would have had a hard time matching the company's organization chart...
...recognize all of the progressive steps which have been taken by the Law School. However, we are not satisfied. Short-term and part-time appointments do not change the complexion of the Law School's tenured faculty. We are acutely aware that short-term palliatives simply do not resolve the fundamental problem of the legacy of de facto racial exclusion in tenured faculty appointments at Harvard and most other law schools...
...East Germany in 1953, in Poland and Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and in Poland again in 1981. Each was crushed. Hungary has since been allowed much economic flexibility, but the police state and the Soviet army's presence have prevailed every time. The short-term lesson is that totalitarianism is not easily dislodged. The recurrence of outbreaks, however, suggests a reckoning that is only postponed...