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...murder. Wednesday, he withdrew his candidacy for chairman of the World Trade Organization. Thursday, prosecutors said President Salinas himself could be charged with impeding a probe of another killing -- the March 1994 shooting of PRI presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio, whom Salinas had chosen as his successor. Now, formerly timid critics are blaming him, in part, for the Dec. 20 devaluation that sent the peso plummeting...
...Timid power-play work. Twice Harvard had five-on-three advantages for over a minute, and twice they disintegrated without so much as forcing a brilliant save out of Thomas. YOU HAVE TO SHOOT THE PUCK TO SCORE, how loudly...
...Enola Gay affair has given the American people a rare glimpse into the corruption of our institutions of national culture. Perhaps our timid revolutionaries will use the upcoming hearings on this fiasco to show some courage: call cultural corruption by its name and cut off the subsidy. Not cut-cut off. Zero out. Let heads, and agencies, roll...
Since the overwhelming Republican victory in the November elections, the Democratic party leadership has appeared confused and timid. Instead of challenging proposals like the Contract With America, the Democrats have for-saken their ideals and tried to mimic the Republican agenda. For example, shortly after the recent elections President Clinton indicated that he might not oppose Republican plans to legalize prayer in public schools. In contrast to this cowardice, Barbra Streisand expressed a clear, bold vision for America in her speech last week at the Institute of Politics ARCO Forum...
...notes, under Texas law a co-conspirator to murder can be put to death. Jacobs was at least a party to this murder, so your sympathy is misplaced. Now the state should mete out similar justice to the 398 criminals still on death row, as a good example to timid authorities elsewhere in the country...