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...reform--a package of bills designed to rein in what Bush called "junk lawsuits that clog our courts." While it wasn't clear that frivolous lawsuits were out of control, business groups looking to limit their liability had for years been pouring money into the issue, helping create a pro-tort reform majority in the state senate. (The groups gave generously to Bush. In his two gubernatorial campaigns, he collected $4.1 million from tort-reform lobbyists, according to the watchdog group Texans for Public Justice--10% of his total contributions...
...candidates off the ballot. But the secretive council surprised everyone and waved most reform hopefuls onto the ballot. Why? Some believe Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, Khomeini's successor as Supreme Leader, feared a repeat of last summer's days of rage, when young Iranians throughout the country rioted after a pro-reform newspaper was shut down...
...reformers may not be precisely what it seems: the unknown factor is former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Desperate for a big name to head their slate, the hard-liners turned to Rafsanjani, despite the fact that his party, Servants of Construction, was already part of the pro-Khatami coalition. Rafsanjani leaped at the chance, hoping to win an easy Majlis seat and stage a political comeback, possibly as speaker, a post he held from 1980 to '89. While the President and Rafsanjani agree on issues like opening up to the West and economic reform, Rafsanjani is resistant to loosening...
Grozny was only the most striking stop on a week's trip by road and helicopter from the far north deep into the south of Chechnya. It started in Znamenskoye, theoretically the most pacified and pro-Russian part of the country. It continued in Gudermes, the railway town that will probably be Chechnya's new capital, and ended in Avturi, 15 miles south of Grozny, where 300-to-400 yds. separate Russian and Chechen troops. Security, even in the most firmly controlled areas, is something that remains confined to daylight hours. The Chechen fighters have been bruised, but they...
...governments mandate it with phrases like "the national interest" (Kennedy kept journalists silent with that trick) or with loyalty oaths. During the McCarthy shame, graduate students were required to sign loyalty oaths when they applied for government grants. A dean at Harvard defended this practice as being merely pro forma--of no greater significance than licking the stamps on the application envelopes. At a faculty meeting, the great Italian scholar Renato Poggioli stood up and commented, "Mr. Dean, I am from Fascist Italy, and I will tell you something. First you licka the stamps, then you licka something else...