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...religious right," a voting segment that Bush would like to win without public wooing. But his choice of words cannot veil the fact that the proposal would represent a philosophical retreat, not only from the small-government rhetoric of the 1994 Republican Revolution, but also from the modern social compact that America has developed since the New Deal. Handing off some of the government's programs to religious charities would not only endanger the programs but would handicap the charities and abdicate social responsibility for social ills...
...then, we were already slamming all of our compact discs into plastic tubs, condensing all our opened boxes into as little space as possible. Lights and CD players were unplugged and boxed, and roughly 1,000 compact discs were on our mostly dysfunctional dolly...
Paul Gutman '00 is working for AWARE Records this summer in Chicago, and attended Woodstock '99 as part of a 6-person crew selling compact discs to the festival-goers. The awaremusic.com tent lost $76,000 of merchandise and personal property during an event of supposed love and peace that ended in mayhem...
...bubble, on his own. Most often he headed up to the house his mother had left him on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., a place so special, so private, the houses far back from the road, the beaches so peaceful. Until last Saturday afternoon, when the luggage, a woman's compact, a headrest, began washing up on that shore, turning a wedding day into a wake...
...cameras would solve my problem. As leery as I am of APS film, whose most obvious distinction is its high price, I'm tempted by the cameras' handy, lightweight designs. Because the cartridge is smaller than 35 mm and the film requires no threading, the cameras can be very compact. They take pictures in three sizes and replace negatives with a single contact sheet that displays thumbnail images of an entire roll at a glance. So I decided to put three brand-new models from Canon, Konica and Minolta to the test. My bar: they had to be sleek...