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Seven Senate and House hearings in the past three weeks have offered a welter of ideas for change, including a mammoth electronic database to track the comings and goings of all foreign visitors. (Such an information bank could cost $500 million, and is drawing cries of xenophobia.) Already passed in the antiterrorism package is a measure that will triple the number of immigration agents along the 4,000-mile Canadian border guarded in some places by nothing more than orange cones. Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary's immigration subcommittee and a longtime champion of open borders, will...
...time I leave Gujarat, the chaotic relief effort has been replaced by some semblance of order. After some prodding by New Delhi, the state administration has snapped out of its stupor, launching a welter of rehabilitation and reconstruction schemes and working with the NGOs. Many volunteer groups are pulling back, leaving the work to be done by organizations that have the best resources on the ground. This allows for easier coordination, ensuring that aid is spread evenly. Corporate India has responded magnificently to calls from the government, with many companies adopting entire villages. Thousands of wealthy Gujaratis abroad?think...
...Dumas? troubles began in 1997, when magistrates investigating a welter of Elf- related scandals stumbled upon the mysterious figure of Deviers-Joncour. Tipped off to her exorbitant lifestyle by an anonymous letter, investigators soon discovered her links to Dumas. The former model was put under formal investigation in November 1997, serving five months of preventive detention. She initially attempted to protect her ex-lover but finally, feeling spurned and isolated, told investigators that Dumas had secured her Elf job and that her main assignment was to try to make him reverse his veto on the sale of six frigates...
America is still a youthful nation at heart, a fact reflected in the welter of youth-worship that invariably accompanies the election season. Everything, the various candidates relentlessly insist, is to be done in the name of "our young people" and "our children." And these days, post-Columbine and Eminem, the popular culture seems to have become the principle "enemy-of-the-children," with everyone from Lynne Cheney to our would-be moralist-in-chief, Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, inveighing against the filth and obscenity peddled to America under the cloak of "free speech" and "artistic expression." This rhetoric...
...crypto issue, which is still smoldering and poisoning the atmosphere, could have been settled sensibly long ago. We would have found out that some small forms of crypto were useful and practical and that most of the visionary stuff was utter hogwash. It would have shaken out in a welter of disillusionment, just as Flower Power did. But we never got to that point, thanks mostly to the obstreperous attitudes of the anti-crypto forces, who are basically spies...