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Third Millennium's agenda doesn't even coincide with the concerns of the young people it purports to represent. The group, which was the brainchild of neoconservative pop historian Bill Strauss, jumped on a Perot-style, deficit-hawkish platform pledging to combat "fiscal child abuse" but failed to articulate exactly where cuts other than social security and Medicare should be made. it tossed aside what the group's leaders call "fringe" issues like abortion and health care even though they affect most young people...
...intention of the constitution isn't tohave an omnibus bill," Gabay said. "[It's] to givestudents a voice to combat paternalistic effortsand pick what they want...
...state of Virginia honors its traditions faithfully, preferring, in its genteel political combat, mediocrity over notoriety. But this year's Senate race, starring the wounded Democratic incumbent, Charles Robb, and his probable Republican challenger, Oliver North, of Iran-contra fame, competes with the soaps for sensationalism. Tales of sexual adventures and charges of mendacity were already staples when the subject of mental instability popped up last week. "This is the most bizarre race in the state's history," says Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, an expert in ugly campaigns. "To have two scandal-drenched candidates is a breakdown...
...shot without warning, but because they were Arafat's men. "If they had been Hamas members, we would have been justified in killing them," contended an Israeli military source. "I.D.F. soldiers have orders to shoot to kill anyone carrying a weapon. You don't fire warning shots in a combat situation. All Gaza is a combat situation, all the time...
...heavily armed police officers, clad in black combat fatigues, smashed into the second-floor Boston apartment in search of guns and coke. They found only a frail 75-year-old man, who retreated into a bedroom. They ran him down and handcuffed him. The old man, a retired Methodist minister who read his Bible daily and abhorred violence, vomited and suffered a heart attack -- a fatal one. He was literally scared to death...