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...enact laws that would deny just compensation to victims of malpractice or injury. More troubling, they insist that all the tort-reform ideas would undermine a fundamental principle of democracy: the idea that any citizen should have unrestricted access to the courts for redress of any grievances he might suffer. Robert Habush, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers, says of the tort-reform movement, "In my 25 years in law, this is as serious a threat to the civil justice system as I have ever seen. People have decided there is going to be a hanging...
Indeed it is. Around the country, TIME correspondents listened to passionate arguments by people on both sides of the insurance crisis. Recalls Chicago Correspondent Barbara Dolan: "There were emotional interviews with people who claimed to suffer horrible damages from negligence and equally emotional sessions with insurers who thought that they were being driven out of business by Americans' greed." In the course of her reporting, Washington Correspondent Anne Constable was similarly struck by the human and legal dimensions of the liability-insurance problem. Says she: "Amid all the tangled issues that lawmakers are sorting through, there are some real flesh...
...ministers and U.S. oilmen admonishing American consumers for our unrestrained consumption of oil. I remember, too, those avaricious souls telling the world that high oil prices were nothing more than the result of supply and demand. Now that the cycle has reversed itself, let OPEC and American oil producers suffer. Mike Huberty Knoxville...
...British Labor Party, there is a fashionable attitude of blaming the U.S. for trying to stop terrorists rather than the terrorists for starting the bloodshed. A broader group of Europeans fear that since their continent, not the U.S., is the terrorists' battleground, they are most likely to suffer reprisals...
...deterrent force--our offensive missiles and bombers--was of the proper size before the Soviets deployed their defenses, it must now be expanded to ensure that the same number of weapons will land on Soviet targets, after taking account of the attrition the U.S. missile force will suffer as it passes through the Soviet defenses. So for the U.S. to deploy an ABM defense is the wrong response to the Soviet action. But since we are in this bind, why don't we do this: put a small amount of money in the budget for ABM procurement, but state...