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Experts say there is no research to demonstrate persuasively whether tougher prisons lead to reduced crime. But for people fed up with lawbreaking, there is an undeniable psychological satisfaction in the thought of making hard time live up to its name. "Politicians are responding to the public, which is looking to impose mild forms of torture,'' says David Anderson, author of Crime & the Politics of Hysteria. In a new TIME/CNN poll, 67% of those questioned thought inmates were treated too leniently. Chain gangs were approved by 65%. And 51% thought convicts should be deprived of their TV sets and barbells...
Faced with stiff opposition from both the right and the left, Senate majority leader Bob Dole reluctantly put off action on the G.O.P. leadership's much touted welfare-reform plan (which has already passed the House). Conservative Republicans, including rival presidential aspirant Phil Gramm, are demanding tougher provisions penalizing unwed mothers, especially those who are teenagers. Democrats are insisting on more generous job-training and child-care provisions...
...Croatian onslaught created a rift among NATO allies, who had only recently come together with a new, tougher policy toward the war in Bosnia. Earlier in the week the alliance had announced it would apply to all Bosnian "safe havens" the same rules it had already laid down for Gorazde--calling for pre-emptive air strikes if the areas are seriously threatened. By Thursday, the Serbs had apparently heeded the warning and pulled back...
...most ruthlessly ambitious in a town not known for the modesty of its moguls. In one grand gesture he erased much of the conventional wisdom about his style and vision: the heart surgery that was supposed to have mellowed him turns out to have made him even tougher; the egomaniac who was accused of driving away anyone talented enough to threaten his regime embraces Cap Cities' formidable president, Robert Iger, and his team; the tightwad who would never buy retail or take the big gamble for fear of making the big mistake goes and seals the deal of the year...
...Often it failed to conduct thorough background checks for prior criminal offenses. In a survey it found that 72% of its licensed dealers never even bothered to open a bona fide store, but operated instead from their homes. Under Magaw, however, the bureau has lately got much tougher on applicants, requiring for the first time that they submit fingerprints and a photograph. Now the number of dealers is falling at a rate of 150 dealers a day, an ATF spokesman says, and the bureau expects the total to level off at somewhere between...