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Meanwhile, his own prescription is of uncertain value at best. And even if it did work, it would work at the expense of bedrock Republican values. To raise tariffs, after all, is to raise taxes on international commerce--to impede economic efficiency, thus shielding some workers from the market's invisible hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INCOME INEQUALITY: WHO'S REALLY TO BLAME? | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...with sin, and they pictured their own history as an epic struggle with evil. Today, however, while the repertoire of evil seems never to have been richer, as we daily encounter (and even relish) images of unimaginable horror, our grasp on the reality of evil nonetheless seems week and uncertain, our responses to it flustered and sometimes indifferent...

Author: By Charles C. Savage, | Title: A Subtle Moral Reworking | 11/3/1995 | See Source »

...executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the unauthorized spending of $332,400 in organizational funds to settle a sexual-harassment claim. Indeed, all the N.A.A.C.P. has to show for Chavis' 16 months at the helm is a $4 million deficit and an uncertain future. If Chavis wants to devote himself to a cause, it should be repaying the N.A.A.C.P. for the damage he's done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MILLION MEN, MINUS ONE | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...against them; while the Bosnian army used the following truce delay to make several advances of its own. The Serbs also renewed their infamous "ethnic cleansing," this time forcing thousands of women and children from towns in northwestern Bosnia and taking captive thousands of men who now face an uncertain fate. But after nearly three dozen failed cease-fires, the latest truce appeared to be holding at week's end. There was, however, a cruel new twist: makeshift natural-gas lines, flowing with the volatile fuel for the first time in months, caused at least two serious explosions in Sarajevo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: OCTOBER 8-14 | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

Depth of Cuts Uncertain...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: MEDICARE REFORM and Harvard's Teaching Hospitals | 10/18/1995 | See Source »

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