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None of our other main objectives will have been accomplished. Saddam Hussein will still be in power, oil prices will still be subject to the will of OPEC, and that alleged principle of not rewarding aggression--well, we all know how consistently it will be upheld in the future. My argument, however, is that an Iraq freed from the reign of Saddam Hussein can, if not totally justify our actions, at least salvage some of our principles and maybe even allow a sense of pride...
...nine children, took the company's lawyer to task for making "a farce of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act." That act, a 1978 amendment to Title VII, ensured that federal antibias protections cover pregnant workers. In another concurring opinion, Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Byron White upheld the majority decision but allowed that there may be instances where "sex-specific fetal protection policy" is justifiable...
...decision that business groups found crushing, the Supreme Court last week upheld Haslip's judgment. The court found by a 7-to-1 vote that the large punitive-damage award against the insurance company did not violate the 14th Amendment's due-process clause. Writing for the majority, Justice Harry Blackmun conceded that "unlimited jury discretion . . . in the fixing of punitive damages may invite extreme results that jar one's constitutional sensibilities." But, Blackmun concluded, "we need not, and indeed we cannot, draw a mathematical bright line between the constitutionally acceptable and the constitutionally unacceptable that would fit every case...
Parretti has faced ballooning troubles since acquiring the studio. He has been slapped with two lawsuits, one just two weeks ago, by producers who claim he sold the rights to shared properties -- the Pink Panther films and the James Bond films -- too cheaply. In January a court in Italy upheld an old conviction for fraudulent bankruptcy that Parretti has been fighting for nearly a year. The entrepreneur has also been shamed in Hollywood's most public court, the box office. All the films MGM has released since the acquisition (including Rocky V, Not Without My Daughter and Desperate Hours) have...
What did troops from other nations do in the war? For the most part, their jobs were supportive. Yet it seems certain that some of them will return home feeling that they had upheld national honor. A 225-strong Czechoslovak team of medical and chemical-warfare specialists flew their colors with special pride. Its members resisted outside help to the point of refusing desert-camouflage fatigues, resting content with green winter uniforms and caps complete with earflaps. Asian Muslims -- including 11,000 Pakistanis, 2,000 Bangladeshis and about 310 Afghan mujahedin guerrillas -- were assigned to guard Islam's shrines...