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What is most worth saving in the bill? The ban on assault weapons, which won't cost taxpayers a cent. The building of more prisons, which will cut the number of plea bargains and ensure that those who should remain behind bars do so. And most important, the hiring of 100,000 new cops...
...Ninety per cent of the people of Bangladeshi origin living in New York can't speak the English of the average American," observes travel agent Mohammed Hossain (no relation to Mukit). "Letterman seems to be enjoying their failure." And yes, standing by the Mississippi last week, the pair triggered the brittle Letterman chuckle by staring blankly at a reference to the Stanley Cup and discovering new consonants in words like Illinois...
...That must have been hard. The management had, after all, opened the only new opera house in England since the first Glyndebourne theater was built 60 years ago. They had done it within their budget of $50 million. Best of all, they had fulfilled their dream without taking a cent of public money...
...class is evenly split between Democrats and Republicans (39 percent each), with the remaining 11 percent claiming independent status. Twenty-one per cent did term themselves "liberal Democrats," matched by the same proportion calling themselves "middle of the road" Republicans...
Plus, the New Testament had all of these horrendous stories, like the one about some people who had to work all day for half a cent, while others only had to work for half an hour for half a cent, and the people who worked all day were supposed to be happy. Or, worse yet, there is the one about the younger sibling who runs away with half the money but when he returns, his mum and dad throw him a party and make his older brother share what's left. Now, as an older sibling, I know that...