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...with no arm came into my shop, the blood gushing from his stump. Then he ran away. I saw the torso of a woman. She was still moving, but her legs were gone. The other day I saw something similar in a film. A beast cut a young man in two, torso and legs. One was a movie, the other is our reality here in Bosnia. We are like a flock of little chickens squeezed into this cage of a town, chirping for help...
Numbers like those are enough to elevate the details of prison administration into presidential campaign planks. As part of his standard stump speech, Texas Senator Phil Gramm says he wants to make inmates work 10 hours a day. At every campaign stop he gets cheers with the line "We've got to stop building prisons like Holiday Inns.'' Gramm has talked about putting Maricopa County's Sheriff Arpaio in charge of the federal prison system...
...Republican presidential candidates, and sundry moral scolds upholding the alleged "true meaning" of civil rights, have been clamoring to denounce? Where is Pete Wilson while this woman proposes to travesty the principles of racial equality that our country holds dear? Why is Pat Buchanan not out there on the stump denouncing this elitist exercise in anti-white social engineering...
...conservatives' thrust against PBS, therefore, seems to be faltering. On this Gingrich is too extreme for his own troops. The Speaker of the House, when he speaks on cultural affairs, is truly a wonder. Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization. This is the guy who hates the '60s but reincarnates them in his 40-acres-and-a-laptop Utopianism; who thinks kitsch "futurologists" like Alvin and Heidi Toffler are gurus and that a fund-raising cultist like Arianna Huffington is an intellectual. He filled his cable...
...this looking very good, since the Branch Davidians died in circumstances that will remain murky." But Republicans, some of whom have openly courted the ATF's grassroots opposition, must conduct the hearings with dignity and "not appear to be sympathizers of the militias. What passes for wonderful stump rhetoric can, on television, make you look like a wild-eyed radical pretty fast." Still, she notes, many details of the federal operation will emerge for the first time, since the Administration has released almost no information publicly to date: "This has contributed to a great deal of confusion and mystery," says...