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...investment in arming and training Colombia's armed forces. Of course, the emergency aid, contained in a Pentagon funding package that passed the House of Representatives Thursday, is motivated less by ideological affinity with Colombia's rulers than by the war on drugs, but nobody doubts that its net effect will be to beef up counterinsurgency efforts. In instances - and there are many - where the leftist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) stand between the authorities and the drug traffickers, fighting the FARC inevitably becomes part and parcel of the war on drugs. But the Pentagon...
...polls appear to reflect a growing concern among voters: whether either candidate is capable of working with others, a trait seen as essential to being effective on Capitol Hill. Since his Senate run was first mooted, Democrats have painted Giuliani as a dictatorial mayor who may be able to keep crime rates low and the trains running on time, but who would be a disaster in any position that required teamwork. Meanwhile, in recent weeks the GOP has tried to paint the First Lady in a similar light. They point to the new book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton...
Diallo's mother may lament the fact that no one got to know her son through the trial testimony, but court is not a talk show. And if civil rights activist Al Sharpton really wants to effect change in the New York police, he could probably be more influential by being silent rather than delivering hostile tirades. TIM LAITINEN Arlington, Texas...
...audiences left the concert halls in droves to protest what they felt was music that did not communicate. My compositions were dubbed "hopelessly tonal." Now it is safe to be a tonal composer. But the risk lies in music becoming so openly derivative and unchallenging, so dangerously reliant on effect, that it will invite a swing away from tonality and a move back to another period of nontonality. BENJAMIN LEES Palm Springs, Calif...
...economic effect on America of a new era of higher oil prices looks to be minimal; the political effect, however, could be considerable. After their collective huffing and puffing in Vienna this week, it looks like OPEC's 11 member countries will agree to boost production by 1.7 million barrels a day, a less-than-monumental increase designed to stabilize prices at their current level. This new price plateau, says Robert Kaufmann, professor at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Boston University, will probably mean few broad-reaching economic ramifications. "Emphasis on 'probably,'" says Kaufmann. "We've seen...