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...argue that a Latino woman from Adams House cannot effectively advance the interests of the broader House community (i.e. including those who happen not to be Latino women) fundamentally undermines the principle of representation. Under that logic, older people cannot represent younger people, Jews cannot represent Christians, the sick cannot represent the healthy...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Diverse Problems | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...first sign of trouble in the Chesapeake Bay tributaries came last fall, when local watermen started coming down with unusual health problems. Fishermen also reported sick fish, particularly menhaden, whose schooling habits make them especially vulnerable. But it was two fish kills in the Pocomoke River last month that signaled ecological crisis. In the first, more than 10,000 fish turned up dead. Three weeks later, thousands of distressed menhaden thrashed around the surface as sea gulls swooped down and ate them. The state set up an on-site monitoring station, with orders to close any waterway where more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACRE ON THE BAY | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...particular taxpayers who happen to be personal friends of someone in IRS management." Why so shy about coming forward? One agent claimed to be "painfully aware of the ability of the IRS to retaliate against employees who dare to speak out." Heard around Agency watercoolers Monday: "I was sick! Really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRS Trigger Men Tell All | 9/25/1997 | See Source »

...what retired police chief Joseph McNamara says is true, then I'm more frightened than sick. McNamara stated, "The message of politicians to police that they are soldiers in a war may be driving these angry and violent expressions of contempt. It is common in war to dehumanize the enemy. And all wars produce atrocities." If that's what police officers think, it's no wonder that some are seduced by the power a police badge can bring. Officers who adhere to that sort of philosophy end up creating wars of their own where there were none before. I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...concur with Museveni's statement, "Unless you say all the societies in the whole world are uniform, then you cannot say their political management must be uniform." First, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and heal the sick. Then give them political liberties. It may be repulsive to Western civil libertarians, but as Museveni says, Africa is not the West. Fundamental rights can be given attention only when the socioeconomic and cultural diversity of a state has reached the right equilibrium. KIPKORIR KIRUI Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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