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Lacking the courage of our own imperialism, we are now going to twist our justice system to make a trial of this petty foreign dictator, whose country we invaded to grab him, fit into conventional criminal procedure. Did I say "grab him"? Not at all. For legal reasons, the Government preposterously insists that he "surrendered voluntarily." Conservatives are already complaining that civil liberties may let Noriega off the hook -- as if the difficulty of giving a fair trial to a man America went to war against proves that America's fair-trial standards are too stringent...
Among Noriega's other available defenses is one of selective prosecution. Is the U.S. now going to hold legally liable every foreign head of state whose malefactions hurt Americans? Surely not, as Administration officials have been at pains to make clear in recent days. Seizing and trying Noriega reflects two contradictory kinds of American posturing: bullying and faux-naivete (we don't really invade countries; we just enforce the law). If the Panamanians didn't want him, he should have been allowed to rot in the resort of his choice, like other former American friends...
...Sony's chairman, Akio Morita, and Shintaro Ishihara that has stirred such debate with its pointed challenges to America. Tokyo Rose is, in fact, an improvement on it. You can dance to Parks if you have some appropriately eccentric moves. And while he's riling you, he can always make you smile...
Despite their reputation as dirt lovers, pigs have generally good sanitary habits. Potbellies can be housebroken faster than most dogs, which is one reason they make tolerable house pets. Leilani Appleyard, a psychotherapist in suburban Rochester, notes that visitors sometimes comment on the absence of house stench after meeting her two-year-old pig Gretel...
...national media were slow to discover Tawana Brawley, a young black woman who claimed to have been sexually assaulted by several white men. But when the press did embrace her, it quickly figured out how to make the facts fit the mold. Though some reporters grew skeptical of her story early on -- and were later vindicated -- the media initially made Brawley not only a survivor of vicious violence but also a popular honor student whom racism had subjected to unimaginable agony...