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...sympathetic to the activists' position, I admire their tenacious protests, consciousness-raising and even fasting. Yet I would like to call them to a take perhaps a less confrontational political position and a more radical philosophical justification of their enterprise. As Kafka once said, "a book must be an ax which we can take against the frozen sea within us." Where the force of identity politics has failed heretofore, perhaps the vertiginous decentering occasioned by reflections on the metaphysics of identity can lead to the unforced consensus upon which all social movements depend...
...supposed to get the ax: Government aid to U.S. companies to build power plants overseas; $14 million to buy land for a U.S. Army museum near the Pentagon; millions more for Tennessee Valley Authority recreational facilities. When House Republicans passed their budget last month, they brashly proclaimed they would rip out wasteful programs, even whole departments, by the roots. There would be no mere trimming and rearranging as the Democrats had done in the past. But so far, it's not working out that way. The big problem: someone forgot to tell the Republicans who run the House Appropriations Committee...
...BIRD 12% of his friends at Children's Television Workshop get the ax...
...plan foresaw even deeper cuts: $1.4 trillion worth, the extra trims needed to offset a $350 billion tax cut. The G.O.P. lawmakers said they would chop billions from projected outlays for Medicare and Medicaid, eliminate scores of federal social programs and abolish the Commerce Department. (House Republicans would also ax the Education and Energy departments.) Democrats promptly labeled the proposals unfair to working families, the elderly and the poor, and warned that the cuts were dangerous for the economy...
...Montana state Senate caved in to popular demand today when it overturned a provision of a sex-offender bill that would have required people convicted of homosexual acts to register with police. The voice vote to ax the provision without debate came after the state Legislature was flooded with complaints telephoned in by angry constituents who opposed the legislation. The bill initially was approved by the Senate Wednesday in a 41-8 vote, although both sides conceded it probably would have no effect. A Montana law that outlaws homosexual sex between consenting adults has never been enforced. The bill drew...