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...student walkouts being sponsored on Jamal's behalf? In the case of the Hollywood celebrities who have lined up behind Jamal, the best explanation seems to be outright ignorance. Most have not critically examined the facts of the case, and when pushed to explain their association with Jamal, most resort to explaining their general opposition to the death penalty. But this raises another question: Why have death penalty opponents embraced this case in the first place...
...Gore weighed in on the world financial crisis today with a plea to Japan to restructure its financial system and open up to free trade. "America cannot be the importer of only resort," the vice president said. "Please, we need your help to deal with this global economic crisis...
...atomic-age Christian culture, are about to reach another climax. Beyond the obvious reason that the year 2000 is at hand, there's the end of the cold war, which threatened for a while to deprive us of the sheer glamour of imagined annihilation. Even Hollywood has had to resort lately to wayward asteroids, space invaders and Godzilla as a way to provide that strangely agreeable image, civilization getting wrecked. "Yeah," we tell ourselves, as the space rock/laser beam/Japanese reptile whacks another ugly office building. "That should only happen to everything...
There's no doubt that reform is needed. In September the Swiss senate granted the I.O.C. a tax abatement worth $1.5 million for "public service to Switzerland"--a country seeking the 2006 Winter Olympics for its mountain resort Sion. The lower house of parliament has yet to approve the windfall, but it may heed Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger, who persuaded reluctant senators to approve the tax break even if it meant "holding their noses...
...package of falsehoods, "Every American has full and complete freedom of associations and freedom of speech." But that freedom cannot extend to the deliberate spreading of lies and smears calculated to harm an organization and an office-holder Dershowitz opposes politically. The fact that Dershowitz believes he must resort to falsehoods suggests that the truth--about both Rep. Barr and the CofCC--is on our side, not his. GORDON LEE BAUM Bridgeton...