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Even conservative Republicans, like Trent Lott, now hesitate to make blanket condemnations of adultery.
That will give those neighbors--yes, even Tony Blair--plenty of reason to hesitate before forming a closer European Union.
The Indian press has generally advised against any escalation of the war, and the Times of India ran an editorial Wednesday discounting a much-reported remark by the Pakistani foreign minister that "we will not hesitate to use any weapon in our arsenal to defend our territorial integrity."
Already, it is becoming very difficult to deny-- all available evidence points to it--that the day is surely coming, withal, when there will remain, truly, no mere coincidences about which one cannot avoid a suspicion or shake off a conviction, when clearly everything will incontrovertibly support a thesis or conversely stand in direct contrast to it, and, overriding all this, there will as a result be not the slightest doubt in our minds about one inescapable conclusion, namely the dawning realization that, there being nothing more to say on the subject, as it were, we therefore will no longer hesitate but rather will necessarily feel compelled to state the obvious.
The state office on domestic violence has pointedly agreed, warning that the ruling could cause abused women to hesitate in bringing their plight before the courts for fear of being chastised for their trouble.