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...Powers Resolution aimed to "insure that the collective judgment of both congress and the President" will figure into a decision to take the United States to war. But despite its intentions, the resolution has only widened the schism between the executive and legislative branches in determining war policy. And with Bush's unilateral navigation of the Persian Gulf crisis, Congress's effective influence in shaping foreign policy has reached its lowest point since Vietnam...
...individual's judgment, ordinarily sound and self-aware, may defer to the collective judgment in a group, where individual responsibility gets diffused, scattered among the many. Says R. Scott Tindale, associate professor of psychology at Chicago's Loyola University: "Under normal circumstances, when you are deciding what to do, you have internal standards to check. When you are in a group setting, when you are less self-focused, you don't check these inner standards. You are more likely to check the standards around you." It takes a strong, poised character to wade against the currents of group will. Those...
...lawyer, $1 million for each blow against him. As it happens, Chief Gates appeared before the city council last week to testify about the sums being paid by Los Angeles -- about $10.5 million in 1990 -- to successful plaintiffs in police-misconduct suits. One was a $265,000 judgment to an 18-year-old white youth who was dragged from a car and beaten severely enough to suffer permanent ear damage. Although a civil-court jury found six officers at fault, Gates told the council that after a nine-month investigation, his department could not determine which officer had actually done...
...stakes are not uncompromisingly biblical: heaven on the one hand, hell on the other. The spirit is much more Buddhist: good souls are permitted to go on to a new life, while unworthy ones are sent back to earth to try again. After you've been to Judgment City, the second alternative is not entirely appealing. The highly evolved locals jocularly refer to earthlings as "little brains," because they employ only 2% or 3% of their mental capacity. A step backward becomes particularly dispiriting to Daniel after he meets a brave, smart woman named Julia (played by a sexily beaming...
...Guide) said he had toyed with the idea of turning his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., into a "private little museum," but had decided to place the collection in a wider context. "There are only two complete museums in the world, the Louvre and the Met. My judgment was that the Met was probably the best protection I would get. It was a matter of continuity...