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Personally, I support the death penalty only in cases where criminals request it or there is a history of escape and repeated vicious crimes...
...because the whole world would be affected. The President had promised four months ago at the United Nations that the U.S. would at last make a stand against global warming, the ominous trend that threatens the planet with climatic upheaval: melting glaciers, rising sea levels and more frequent and vicious storms. In December, 160 nations will meet in Kyoto, Japan, to forge a treaty to combat climate change, but until last week the U.S. refused to put its cards on the negotiating table. And without the forceful leadership of the U.S.--the most prolific producer of the "greenhouse" gases that...
...against the Soviet Union. A good start at restitution would be the imposition of sanctions against Afghanistan, the kind that finally toppled South African apartheid. And since the Taliban forbids foreign-aid workers to offer assistance to women, U.N. aid ought to be halted in areas held by this vicious regime. I fear, however, that women are still considered second-class citizens in the U.S., as well as in Afghanistan, and the world will not see major action soon against the Taliban. LORI ROSSBERG, President Women's Equity Action League of California Beverly Hills, Calif...
...neither camp completely, but their methods and textbooks are pushed in one direction or another. The conflict has even become a top political issue in several states; California and Texas are enacting laws mandating phonics instruction. The disputes have been dubbed the Reading Wars, and the participants call them "vicious...
...more sordid level, this race has all of the elements that make New York politics such an attractive subject for Hollywood productions: sex, corruption, racial and ethnic conflict, and vicious politicking. This past summer, a national magazine published rumors of an extra-marital affair between Giuliani and a top aide. The story received wide coverage in both the local New York and national press. But despite the fact that the Mayor's wife has been conspicuously absent from his campaign events, the rumor seems to have fizzled as quickly as it flared...