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...quick to complain about countries that permit traffic in endangered animals and plants, but it rarely acts -- despite a 1978 law that authorizes trade sanctions against the offenders. Last spring, finally, the Administration used the law for the first time. It slapped a ban on some products from Taiwan, citing the black market in tiger body parts and rhinoceros horns, which are used as aphrodisiacs and in traditional medicines...
...permeates the West Wing. Senior officials renowned for optimism on the bleakest of days are spiteful in private and pessimistic in public. Party leaders wonder whether Clinton can or should seek a second term -- or whether to turn to Al Gore instead. Agency executives and Democrats on - Capitol Hill complain that decision making has nearly halted while Clinton remains huddled with top aides. "We're in uncharted waters," said a White House official, "and nobody has their bearings...
...World Turned Upside Down," I cannot help recalling that when I was at Harvard some of our fellow students with weaker minds and character used to complain about the administration's indifference to students. Now we have a student quoted in the Globe, who says "I can't think of anything it means for student life...
Harvard leftists can complain all they want about conservatives. They can label them "offensive" and call for action to be taken against them. But many things we consider offensive here at Harvard are not offensive to mainstream America. And many things that Harvard students take for dogma are offensive beyond the ivy-covered walls...
Good thing Allen didn't mention the new four-wheel-drive Porsche the studio just bought him. But then, the Disney comptroller can hardly complain. Allen has made a pirate's galleon of loot for the company during a year in which he has pulled off an unheard-of triple play. Home Improvement, his ABC sitcom now in its fourth season, is TV's No. 1-rated show, earning Disney $400 million thus far in the sale of reruns. His jokey autobiographical book, Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, reached No. 1 on the New York Times...