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There is real reform in a House measure offered by Representative Nick Rahall, a West Virginia Democrat. It calls for suitability reviews of hard- rock mining proposals (similar to reviews for coal-mine leases), an end to "patenting" (buying U.S. lands for an absurd $5 an acre), federal reclamation standards (now left to states) and an 8% royalty paid to the U.S. on net production. Oil, gas and coal leases on federal land require a 12.5% gross royalty, but hard-rock mining pays nothing to the U.S., and a suitability review is an airy dream. Which is why mining-industry...
Davis submitted a letter to council members onthe unfair concentration of power in the councilPresident Carey W. Gabay '94. "In our system theparliamentarian works for the president and makesquestionable, even absurd, parliamentary rulingsin support of the president's agenda," shecharged...
...ridicule, among other things, the law and our lawsuit-happy society. When Ned discovers that his wife tried to kill someone trying to kill him, Ned the detective arrests her, and then Ned the lawyer defends her. Reiner then takes "Court TV'"s commercialization of justice to its absurd, perhaps plausible limit: law as a spectator-sport, with commentators, whistle-blowers and half-times...
...real: in a society where informants are everywhere and potential refugees are regularly jailed and beaten for merely seeking asylum, Clinton's "in-country processing" operation is absurd. Those who are scared enough to brave the consequences currently face at least a six-month wait before being interviewed, and in violation of international law are denied protection in the interim. ("How could we protect them?" asks a U.S. official, missing the point. "The place is a war zone.") The bottom line: according to an undisputed Americas Watch report, 14,590 Haitians have applied for asylum since Clinton took office...
...like to be read. People who enjoy a good read, people belonging to book clubs. Ladies in book clubs have written to me and that sort of thing, you know. I would certainly not like to be viewed as a post-colonial novelist, that would be absurd. I hope that I write in a way which would be true to all times...