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Conte's death on Feb. 8 provides political hopefuls with an opportunity to take advantage of a "free shot," Linsky says. Candidates need not relinquish present offices to run in the least expensive and shortest race ever for a seat which promises longevity, he says...
...shortest route to a conviction is to get the accused to cry out, "I did it." Sometimes police and prosecutors have been tempted to whip the suspect down that road with anything from a subtle threat to a back-room clubbing. For that reason, courts have long held that forced confessions, whether they were obtained by coercion, beating or psychological pressure, could not be used against an accused person in court. Last week, in a ruling that showed just how vulnerable the legacy of the Earl Warren years has become, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that maybe forced confessions were...
...Americans are determined to launch a large-scale ground operation to crush Iraqi forces in Kuwait." Politics, I reminded him, was the art of the possible. On Gorbachev's instructions, I made a proposal: to announce the pullout of troops from Kuwait. The deadline should be the shortest possible, and the withdrawal should be total and without conditions...
...ground soldiers of Operation Desert Storm, the shortest road home from Saudi Arabia cuts through Kuwait. But the prospect of traveling along it fills the grunts with dread...
...perhaps the resource in shortest supply to families is time together. The amount of "total contact time" between parents and children has dropped 40% over the past 25 years, says the Family Research Council in Washington. This is not good news. Researchers have uncovered ominous links between absentee parents and behavioral problems among children. A 1989 survey of 5,000 eighth-grade students in Southern California found, for instance, that latchkey children were twice as likely to use alcohol and drugs as were children supervised by adults after school...