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While the entire S&L bailout is expected to cost taxpayers as much as $300 billion, the dire shortage of sleuths is partly caused by the Bush Administration's unwillingness to lay out a measly $25 million. Last year the Administration requested $50 million for the assault on S&L villains. Congress upped the authorization to $75 million, but the Administration balked. "If the violators don't believe they're going to be caught and stiffly sentenced, they're going to keep doing it," warned Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr., the subcommittee's chairman and a former banker himself...
There is no such thing as neutrality in this situation. To ignore a request for help is an active decision, and to pretend otherwise is to fool oneself. But it does not fool the supplicant. To the person who has suffered the humiliation of asking a complete stranger for help, the refusal of the most basic courtesy is like a splash of salt water on open wounds...
...last days of a ravaging disease, patients and their families face all but unbearable decisions. Is there a right to die? To commit suicide? To be killed on request? As the private dilemmas multiply, they have become the public province of interest groups, policymakers and the U.S. Supreme Court...
There is a polling request for the Suffolk and Middlesex district... That has not been challenged. First Suffolk Norfolk, microphone 18. Hampden and Hampshire, microphone seven...
...face flushed with anger, Mikhail Gorbachev sat stiffly in the Kremlin's Hall of Meetings as the Supreme Soviet thundered through its most tumultuous session yet. For hours last week, speaker after speaker denounced the Soviet leader's request for sweeping new executive powers. Without using those precise words, they accused him of edging back toward Stalinism, of reaching for dictatorial rule. Scowling down from the tribunal at the offending delegates behind rows of desks, he leaned toward the microphone and pointed an accusing finger...