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Reporting on the current hostage situation has been comprehensive and meticulous, but at the same time excessive and irresponsible. In their competitive zeal, the editors and producers calling the shots have ignored the potential impact of their coverage, which serves Flight 847's captors and encourages repeat performances...
Clancy may also be faulted for setting up a model of macho military behavior that includes potential disobedience of orders. In his zeal to defend the defecting Red October from an Alfa-class Soviet hunter, the commander of a U.S. attack sub considers torpedoing the Alfa on his own authority. Another American officer vows that if the Soviets fire at Red October, then he will destroy the hunter, "and rules of engagement be damned...
...Brazilian government has not pursued the trade with notable zeal. On the books in Brazil is 1980 legislation under which foreign drug dealers, if caught, can be expelled rather than imprisoned. That, says Tavares, is "an open signal that the narcos have nothing to fear in Brazil." Dealers who wind up behind bars, moreover, manage to get free relatively easily. Last year, a Colombian who had set up a refinery just outside Rio simply walked out of a federal maximum-security prison and away from a 27-year sentence. Not long thereafter, a prison guard who claimed that the fugitive...
Whether the attacks are "terrorist" or not, they are indicative not merely of the violent zeal with which some pro-liters approach abortion, but of what the actual debate on abortion has come to in this country a dangerous silence broken periodically by a bomb blast and the sound of fire sterns. Also filling this brandishing graphic photographs and drawings of aborted fetuses barricading clinic doors, harassing patients and workers and even calling abortion patients at home who are about to enter the facilities. There has been no sweeping condemnation by pro-life activists of such protests which have also...
...Duke goes to great length to call into question the accuracy of the opening chapter, which recounts a particular event in which I was attacked and, in fact, bitten by a Dartmouth College official for distributing copies of The Dartmouth Review. But in his zeal to score a hit (or perhaps in his frustration at not being able to) Mr. Duke ends up misinforming his readers. He makes the following assertion: "What Mr. Hart does not mention anywhere in his book, however, is that the administrator was slapped with a week's suspension from work, a court imposed fine...