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...regulations are designed less coherently and less skillfully in the United States than in other industrialized democracies. He outlines the reasons for this—our federalist system and bicameral legislature, and the fragmented structure of Congressional committees. He proposes several workable solutions within our framework, most of which boil down to strengthening the political parties and their ability to discipline individual lawmakers. He comes out persuasively against term limits and ballot initiatives, using sociological research wisely to show that having inexperienced lawmakers deal with complicated issues is a liability...
Earnhardt was a great driver, a superstar in his profession, well liked and admired by many race fans. But to see him referred to as a hero makes my blood boil. In the world in which I was reared, the word hero was reserved for people who performed lifesaving feats at great personal risk or who laid down their life to protect their country. But thanks to the media, "hero" now describes anyone who can throw a football, shoot a puck or, as in this case, drive a car really fast. GARRETT LINDGREN Carmel...
...take one of two related forms: either homosexuality goes against natural law, or it is forbidden by religious dictates. I am skeptical of anyone who argues that nature has a law concerning morality and, moreover, that he or she knows the content of that law. The religious arguments all boil down to one statement: it's wrong because my god told me so. Aside from the fact that all statements which purport to come from the divine have to pass through human editors, there is no compelling evidence whether or not a divine being exists...
Pope has no pity for slow learners. By the time you read the first page, the main character, known as "S," has already stolen the volatile titular liquid from a criminal gang and begun to boil some of it up so he can drip it into his ear for its psychotropic properties. Thereafter it becomes a double cat-and-mouse tale as the gang hunts down "S" while "S" gets hired by an art collector to find a missing artist who can cast the liquid into a sculpture. Meanwhile, nobody really knows where this liquid comes from or what...
...Mugabe blames much of his country's ills on foreign hostility and interference. Last week his frustration came to the boil. Two journalists-Joseph Winter of the bbc and Mercedes Sayagues, who works for a South African weekly highly critical of the Mugabe regime-were expelled from Harare. The government cited work-permit problems, but the moves were clearly part of a clampdown on the foreign press and on reporting of the catastrophic situation in Zimbabwe. Mugabe also invited diplomats to a reception in Harare to rail about the activity of foreign "dirty hands," especially in last year's general...