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...allied quandary and bankruptcy of policy in Bosnia have one root cause: the refusal to risk allied soldiers for the stated U.N. and NATO missions [THE BALKANS, July 17]. The overriding priority is to keep our troops out of harm's way. If translated to the police department, this priority would mean keeping police officers out of high-crime areas. TED KRAMER Ames, Iowa Via E-mail...
...root of Thomas' judicial approach is the principle that the original understanding of the Constitution determines its interpretation and application. Not only is his vision faithful to the Constitution as a written document, but it also limits the freedom of judges to import their own philosophies into constitutional law and allows the Legislative and Executive branches to make the policy calls. White calls Thomas' conclusions in the recent desegregation and affirmative-action cases the result of "twisted reasoning and bilious rage." Anyone who knows the Justice and his optimistic outlook, his ready smile and laugh and his gregarious and vivacious...
Powell's appeal makes it less daunting. What exactly lies at its root? Why does nearly everyone who has worked with him sing his praises? Why is his reputation in the cynical, self-aggrandizing world of Washington nearly without blemish? "I'm sure he has faults," says Charles Duncan, a former Secretary of Energy, who worked with Powell in the Carter Administration, "but I couldn't point to one." Some associates have seen Powell as thin-skinned in the past, but they say he monitors his flaws carefully and is quickly "self-correcting...
...course, that much had changed since then. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was returned last October by the U.S. military after spending three years in exile. The military officers who ousted him had been driven into an exile of their own. And now a new civil society was taking root, nurtured by 6,000 U.N. peacekeepers, a host of relief groups and $1.2 billion in foreign...
...something of a shock to see a capacity crowd of 41,948 stream into brand-new Jacobs Field last Wednesday evening to root, root, root for the best team in baseball, the Cleveland Indians. The press box was crowded; Manny Ramirez stood where George Vukovich once stood; and people were grinning like, well, Chief Wahoo. The fanatic with the drum, a computer programmer named John Adams, was still banging away in the back row of the bleachers, but he couldn't be heard through all the crowd noise. "Cleveland," said Indians pitcher Dennis Martinez, "is the baseball place...