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...most immediate obstacle to improved ties remains India's testing of nuclear weapons two years ago, and the subsequent U.S. sanctions. "Washington's primary concern in dealing with India right now is avoiding a nuclear flashpoint in South Asia," says TIME State Department correspondent Doug Waller. "Although both India and Pakistan now have explosive nuclear devices, they haven't instituted the vast intelligence and command systems needed for safe deployment of those weapons. With neither side even having the ability for advanced surveillance of the other, there's plenty of opportunities for a disastrous mistake as a result...
...begin the new century, it is essential that we remain vigilant about protecting our right to freedom of expression, regardless of the medium with which we are working. This latest rule scale-back is a good first step, but it remains just that: a first step. Let's hope that the tethers surrounding our access to encryption capabilities continue to loosen in the coming months...
...14th amendment guarantee of "equal protection under the law" does not mean that Congress may intervene on the grounds of state incompetence. A policy of reliance on the federal government--whose judges and juries may be equally biased--obscures the states' responsibilities to reform their own justice systems. The right way to fight gender-related violence is through better use of the VAWA's provisions promoting training of judges and police officers, not through shifting all the blame and transferring all the power...
...didn't want," says TIME political correspondent Eric Pooley, reporting from Iowa. The news emerged just when Bradley was waging an eleventh-hour comeback, in which he unleashed Daniel Patrick Moynihan to shore up the state's elderly vote and regional favorite Bob Kerrey to mobilize the party establishment. "Right when he needs to get messages across," says Pooley, "his heart condition is grabbing all of the headlines...
Call off the black helicopters, Kofi, and we can talk. Arch-conservative U.S. senator Jesse Helms on Thursday took his grievances with the United Nations right into the belly of the beast, when he became the first legislator from any country ever to address the Security Council. And although he warned the U.N. against trying to "impose its utopian vision" onto the U.S., the meeting may have marked the beginnings of a rapprochement between the international body and congressional Republicans. (Following his "warning," the French ambassador gently suggested that Senator Helms consider the fact that...