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...Balkans have become a sort of Bermuda Triangle into which human decencies vanish without a trace. In the post-cold war era, it is unsettling to think that conscienceless tribal ferocity may catch on around the world. Rape, of course, has been an apparently inevitable part of war since men first threw rocks at each other -- or anyway since Rome was founded upon the rape of the Sabines. Joseph Stalin expressed a prevailing (male victor's) view of rape in war. When Yugoslav Milovan Djilas complained about the rapes that Russians had committed in Yugoslavia, Stalin replied...
...heart of the controversy lies the so-called Delaney Clause, approved by Congress when Eisenhower was President and named for its chief sponsor, Representative James Delaney of New York. This landmark law prohibits even the tiniest trace of potentially cancer-causing additives in juices, jellies, flour, baked goods and thousands of other processed foods. Most pesticide laws -- for example, the ones that cover fresh foods -- strike a balance between risk and benefit, allowing for tiny amounts of man-made chemicals if they help farmers protect crops. Not Delaney. Any amount of a potential carcinogen in processed food is grounds...
Inside the Justice Department, managers obsessed with political loyalty have created a climate of fear. To trace leaks to the press, the department has installed a new phone system that at the push of a button will list all the calls an employee has recently made. One career staff member who frequently complains about department policies says he has been forced to undergo several psychiatric evaluations. Jonathan Turley, a professor at the National Law Center, says the department's political bosses severely hampered his effort to investigate complaints of sexual harassment suffered by the department's female lawyers. "The bosses...
...between rich and poor does not fully explain New Haven's explosive mix. To the cauldron must also be added (as is true of Cambridge) a dwindling middle class of third and fourth generation Italians, many of whom trace their origins to the first stone masons of Yale...
This was not an emergency, Dispatcher Louison told me coldly, without even a trace of compassion or an ounce of feigned regret...