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...When Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were born, women had less rights than a lunatic--that is, a male lunatic--in an asylum," Burns said. "By the time that they died, most of these--what we consider self-evident--rights had been at least partly achieved...
JOHN HINCKLEY Feds will allow him free time from the asylum--but only supervised day trips...
...United States' repeated public assertions ? and a covert CIA operation to back them up ? that Slobodan Milosevic must be removed from power as soon as possible, apparently when isn?t as important as how. Responding to reports that Belgrade opposition leaders are considering options for finding Milosevic political asylum in, say, Iraq or Belarus, Pentagon chief William Cohen sounded like he had never heard of realpolitik. "He is an indicted war criminal," Cohen said in Denmark Friday. "If there is any place where he seeks sanctuary, perhaps I would recommend the Hague." To TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, Cohen...
...proves--but it is likely that the business will never again have the same kind of lock on the retail investor. Jokes veteran portfolio manager Martin Whitman of the Third Avenue Value Fund: "You haven't seen a more speculative, irrational market in years. The inmates are running the asylum." The industry just hopes that, sooner or later, it can get them back in line...
...messages have to go, what about commercial advertisements in the ball-park? I worry that Budweiser, the Gap, Coke and Pepsi might be booted so that their bourgeois materialism does not reach the Cuban team's virgin ears--as the celebrated billboards that read "Hit this sign, win political asylum" will be. The rituals of the game would still be there but not the spirit...