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General Colin L. Powell, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is without question worthy of our admiration and respect. He has risen through the ranks of a military system which only half a century ago would have placed him in a segregated fighting unit. He has proved himself an outstanding military leader through his conduct of the Gulf...
...state of California has more prisons than any other country and crime has risen," Silbert said, emphasizing the need for social reform for criminals and drug addicts...
...Bosnia becomes another parable (savoring ominously of the '30s) of the primary human mystery, the beast potential in everyone. Sometimes the beast can be talked out -- negotiated out -- and calmed and recivilized. But the bully-beast loves to play with the people's hopeful illusions. Sometimes the beast, once risen among us, needs to be beaten until it is helpless to harm any longer. Sometimes it simply needs to be killed...
Even so, Yeltsin might be hard pressed to win a popularity contest. His ratings have risen slightly -- 36% of Muscovites polled last week approved of his job performance, up 6 points from February -- but he is not as well liked as he was two years ago. Even more worrisome, only 42% said they would vote in a referendum. That is bad news for Yeltsin; he has to attract more than 50% of the electorate to the polls if the tally is to be considered valid. And he must win a heavy majority of that majority to be unmistakably the people...
However, increases in tuition have meant that net costs to students on scholarship have risen by 5.8 percent per year, considerably outpacing inflation in the same period...