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...family members -- have said that Jones told them about Clinton's advances on the day they took place. That didn't stop Robert Bennett, the Washington legal pit bull whom Clinton brought on last week to defend him, from tearing into the charges. "The President adamantly denies the vicious and meanspirited allegations in the complaint," said Bennett. "Quite simply, the incident did not occur...
...hate campaign did its job; relief workers and refugees agree that much of the most vicious killing was done not by the army but by Hutu death squads, called the interahamwe ("those who attack together"). These are young men in street clothes, armed with anything from a screwdriver to an Uzi to a machete, a dull gleam in their eyes and a whistle around their neck. If one spotted a Tutsi family emerging from hiding and trying to flee, he blew his whistle, and his comrades sealed off any escape. "If you look in their eyes," says Daniel Bellamy...
...Chinese), but could actually lead Deng's government to grow more intransigent on human rights, and, in general, more recalcitrant in its dealings with the United States. Failure to renew MFN would rightly be perceived by China as a kind of economic ultimatum; this perception could start a vicious circle of political retaliation. China could decide not only to treat its pro-democracy dissidents more severely, but it could choose not to cooperate on other issues important to U.s. interests, like pressuring the North Koreans to allow the United Nations' nuclear inspections...
...most pungent cultural spillage from the early death of any rock star -- of Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valens, Jim Morrison or Sid Vicious -- may be the movie made from his life. Producers paw through old press clippings, take a quick snort of the current zeitgeist, tack on a note of mythical tragedy and voila!, a tale for our time with a hit sound track guaranteed...
Should anyone much care whether an American boy living overseas gets six vicious thwacks on his backside? So much has been argued, rejoined and rehashed about the case of Michael Fay, an 18-year-old convicted of vandalism and sentenced to a caning in Singapore, that an otherwise sorry little episode has shaded into a certified International Incident, complete with intercessions by the U.S. head of state. An affair that sometimes sounds -- on editorial pages -- equivalent to the abduction of Helen of Troy has outraged American libertarians even as it has animated a general debate about morality East and West...