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...America we often boast of our nation’s immigrant history—and yet the Constitution requires that all of our presidents must be native-born citizens. It is time to end this archaic requirement...
...placelines, now that most reporters use telephones or computers to file articles instantly from almost anywhere. For most readers, the dateline is either unnecessary or unnoticed. They treat it as nothing more than a handful of capital letters and a long dash. Datelines may have been helpful during the archaic age of telegraphs, the thinking probably goes, but they have long since outlived their usefulness...
When someone mentions a “dateline,” don’t think solely of the NBC news magazine show or the website that tries to match up couples. Don’t dismiss it as an archaic vestige of journalism from many decades ago. When you pick up a newspaper and begin to read a story with a dateline, think for a couple of seconds about the people like me who get excited by having earned a dateline. Consider what efforts went into getting the dateline. Don’t overlook this journalistic symbol entirely...
...pretentious holier-than-thou attitude is laughable. Do I feel the need to go door to door preaching the logic of evolution or the Big Bang theory? Of course not. If there is anything we need to spread globally, it is forward-thinking, empirical science, not dogmatic interpretations of archaic texts. Chris Jongkind London, Canada...
...seems to have dogged President Bush’s recent trip to that continent, recent events indicate that Africans may be able to look forward to a brighter future. On June 26, after decades of intransigence, the EU finally took a small but significant step towards reform of its archaic and unjust system of agricultural subsidies...