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Will the crackdown reassure him and others? Even as Bonn was girding for action, a spate of new attacks swept the country. Police moved quickly and arrested suspects, many of whom were then charged with attempted murder. That alone represents an improvement; until recently many suspects in violent attacks were charged with nothing more serious than disturbing the peace. The chairman of the German Union of Judges, Rainer Voss, admitted last week that the public saw the judges as "inappropriately lenient" and urged his colleagues "to confront decisively the enemies of humanity and democracy." The Molln case may have provided...
...Rapid legislative action on a spate of bills, like the Family Leave Act, that have stalled because of Bush vetoes or veto threats...
Amid the current spate of "alternative" rock bands looking more like an Urban Outfitters ad than a music group, every city needs at least one upstart band with its eye on what made punk rock great in the first place--raging guitars, drums pounding out a fiercely danceable beat and lyrics which drench themselves in the sufferings of everyday urban life...
...spate of disasters comes as the industry as a whole is struggling to cope with a series of cataclysmic burdens. Life insurers, for instance, have their hands full with the AIDS epidemic, which is costing the industry more than $1 billion a year. Mounting product-liability claims, including asbestos and pollution damages, are running at $10 billion annually. Insurers are also still recovering from a decade's worth of bad investments in savings and loans, junk bonds and real estate. Says Roger Joslin, chairman of State Farm Fire & Casualty: "This traumatic period is unprecedented in the history of the insurance...
...recent spate of conflict at the Law Schoolis attributable both to the fact that traditionalinstitutions tend to be slow to change, and to thenature of the legal tradition, which operateslargely on precedent, according to Fisher. Hepoints to the "tension between stability andchange" as the decisive factor in facultydisputes, and the concordant faculty response tostudent demands...