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...tobacco suits, called "unjust enrichment." Rather than suing on behalf of specific sick individuals, a strategy that has yet to succeed, the states are claiming they are tobacco's hit-and-run victims, stuck paying out billions of taxpayer dollars each year to treat the array of health problems wrought by smoking. In other words, says one frustrated tobacco-industry lawyer, "the states are taking the position that they don't have to prove anything except the company sold the cigarettes." This denies tobacco's advocates all their favorite defenses--that the individual's health problems may have been caused...
Violence is, of course, more than statistics. Behind every number and percentage is a name, a face, and a grief. There is also a culpability and responsibility that we all share. The problem of youth violence is not a "ghetto" problem from which we can hide, behind the wrought-iron gates of Harvard. The problem is widespread and complicated, affecting children in rural and suburban areas as well as urban children. In 1987, 415,000 violent crimes occurred in or around schools. We all have a responsibility to provide a safe community for children--all children. Since we share...
...campaign veterans as George Stephanopoulos and Mandy Grunwald, I spend my waking hours trying to decipher a political riddle far more baffling than Hillary Clinton's uncanny knack for picking winners in the commodities markets. Who is "Anonymous," the reclusive author of Primary Colors (Random House; $24), the sensitively wrought, deftly drawn, acid-tongued political novel that is a thinly veiled re-creation of the 1992 Democratic primary race...
...comfort may lie in the knowledge that for all the changes Gingrich has wrought and the controversy he has generated, neither Clinton nor Dole can afford to let him expire. A top Dole operative admitted last week that the Senate majority leader needs Newt around to play bad cop, to attack Clinton next year, while Dole poses as presidential, safely above the undisciplined, baby-boom fray. A critically wounded Newt can't perform that mission well. Once just a GOPAC mission, "Newt support" is now a G.O.P. imperative...
...from his pastiche of ideas, the majority of the country must buy in. His vision must offer something better for most people, not just the 40% of the electorate who identify themselves as Republicans. Therefore, it is important to look not only at Gingrich's words. What has he wrought? What does his record portend...