Reservation reform
What the Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad has raised is none of those familiar controversies over the governor's office and Centre-state relations. It is an issue of social justice that is involved in Andhra Pradesh Governor C. Rangarajan's reference to the President of an ordinance sought to be promulgated by the Telugu Desam government.

So much for American values
The Kenneth Starr report on the sexual relations between American President Bill Clinton and the former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is not even pornography. That the Clinton-Lewinsky liaison was based on mutual consent has never been a debatable issue. Clinton admitted his "crime" when he declared that he had "sinned" by indulging in "wrong" and "improper" conduct.

Pressured accord
Sustained American pressure on the Israelis was the single most decisive factor in last week's interim peace agreement between Binyamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat. The grand bargain contains nothing of substance that was not already contained in American proposals made several months ago.

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