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Road to the UN Conference on Environment and Development: North Meets South--by Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder and director, Ladakh Project; and Vanadana Shiva, executive director, Research Foundation for Science and Ecology. KSG, Starr Auditorium...
...Regional Forests and Forest Policies--by Michael Rains, director, Northeaster Area State and Private Forestry, U.S. Forest Service; Arthur Cooper, head, Dept. of Forestry, North Carolina State University; Clark Binkley, dean, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Colombia; and Stephen Blackmer, director of conservation programs, Appalachian Mountain Club. KSG, Starr Auditorium...
...ADMINISTRATION advertises its moral bankruptcy in its current brief before the Supreme Court, which will decide the fate of many of the refugees this week. Bush's Solicitor General, Kenneth Starr, argues in the brief that challenges to repatriation from human rights advocates and religious organizations represent an "unprecedented assault" on executive power. Executive privilege is the last refuge of scoundrels--just ask Richard Nixon or Ollie North. The appeal to legality before morality, however, fits nicely with the refugee/migrant distinction. It clears the conscience--and Guantanamo Bay, where the refugees are waiting--without doing any good for the Haitians...
...editors who gathered around the city desk at the Arkansas Democrat- Gazette, Clinton's hometown paper, had a sense of deja vu. Says managing editor John Starr: "We knew about allegations since October 1990, but we ignored them. We did, the other paper did, the TV stations did. Now here are tapes indicating that this woman has been speaking with the Governor in a way no married man should permit another woman to talk with him on the telephone." So the paper put a dozen reporters on the story. That bore fruit within hours: a story poking holes in Flowers...
...interested in [copyright law], I still read articles on it," Starr says. "But it's certainly not the dominating theme in my life...