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...reduce our economic dependence on volatile nations and invigorate the U.S. oil industry. Increasing gasoline taxes--currently, our prices are far below those of other industrial nations--would prod the auto industry and consumers towards the nascent inevitable revolution of efficient vehicles. It's time for the US to abandon its dirty policies which have marked the 20th century: polluting the planet and supporting oppression abroad...
Ideally, the Senate should abandon the public, roll-call procedure that it adopted in 1868 for President Andrew Johnson's trial and instead require the senators to vote anonymously at trial's end to acquit or convict...
While many would expect an NFL neophyte to head into his career with reckless abandon, Birk has made the leap to the NFL with a professional, workman-like approach. Untouched by the glamour and mystique of the NFL spotlight, Birk has carried out business as usual...
...efforts to make immigrants feel included in American society, the way that he articulated his new plans last week shows he does not understand how minorities in America have functioned historically and function today. Much of America's strength comes from its heterogeneity and multiplicity. To force everyone to abandon marks of distinctiveness takes away from the distinction of America itself...
...Gates, who spent most of his waking hours among computers, turned as inward as the glad-handing Clinton turned outward. New acquaintances traded tales of his bad haircuts, dirty glasses and odd rocking motion. His early reluctance to give to charity--which he's recently begun to abandon--added to a perception that he lacked the Clintonian ability to feel others' pain...