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...actual turnover potential in Congress is relatively small. "If you can design a safe seat for a member of your party, even if he?s a rookie, he?ll have all the perks and powers of the office behind him to be around for a long time," says Mark Rush a political scientist at Washington and Lee University. Incumbents are rarely voted out of office; the only way many of them ever leave is by retiring or dying. So if the congressional lines for a district are drawn in a way that concentrates more voters from one party, the incumbent...
...much racial profiling actually occurs? Criminologists are still debating how to answer that question. Should we take the percentage of traffic stops for a certain racial group and hold it against that group's percentage in the population? Or should it be the percentage of stops vs. the actual driving presence of that group in the area where the stops were made? If we are talking about the percentage of people arrested for a certain crime, can we consider the rate at which others of their race have been picked up for that crime in the past, or is that...
...mind of America's law-enforcement officers? Studies show that we blacks are stopped in numbers higher than our percentage in the population but lower than our documented involvement in crime. If you're trying to measure racism, isn't it better to compare police stops to actual black involvement in crime than to the mere representation of blacks in the population? The elephant in the living room--and the tragedy in black America--is that we commit crimes vastly out of proportion to our numbers in society...
...Georgia Republican, is spearheading the bill favored by Democrats). Meanwhile, insurance companies and trial lawyers across the country are biting their fingernails in anticipation. They may have to suffer a while longer; while many hoped the House would move quickly on the bill, behind-the-scenes maneuvers mean an actual vote may not take place before early next week. Meanwhile, President Bush has indicated he will veto the opposition's bills - but some observers wonder if he'll have the stomach to send away such a popular measure...
...expectations surrounding most internships far exceed the actual career exposure they provide to students. Most employers hire interns as an act of charity, because there is nothing interns are actually qualified to do. But somehow the artificial programs and piles of make-work are supposed to give us glimpses of our future lives. I don’t mean to say that internships are a waste of time; I just think they are falsely advertised. Internships can give students a glimpse of a new career, but most of them give a skewed picture...