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...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders...
...enter the INS. It took a look at the new law and found a loophole. And it intends to make something of it. While granting illegal immigrants amnesty, the immigration bill failed to confer permanent legal status on those who have been living in the country as temporary legal residents. Legally allowed in the U.S. for a limited period under what is known as the H-1 program, these people are technically subject to deportation as soon as their visas expire. Their fates consequently rest in the hands of the INS, which has refused to show mercy and has begun...
Whatever regulatory tinkering is tried, current stock-market trends cannot be entirely reversed. Some of the benefits that computerized trading confer on institutional investors vs. individual investors are permanent. One of those advantages is the ability to buy and sell entire portfolios of stock at once, rather than individual issues. Admits SEC Commissioner Joseph Grundfest: "One of the wonderful things about Wall Street has been that the small investor could lay the same bets as the big boys. Now you might need $9 million to play." He adds, "If you're not computer sophisticated, you're behind the eight ball...
...disparagingly referred to her as "Chatterbox" and "Mother" -- but today she still thinks the struggle was worth it. Says Brundtland: It was tough, but "it gave me enormous strength to know that I was leading a fight on behalf of all women." Being a woman, however, does not automatically confer success. Indeed, the Labor government's popular-approval rating recently sank to 32%, fueling speculation that its days are numbered. Brundtland has been criticized for proposing new social spending at a time when low prices for Norway's government-owned North Sea oil have reduced export earnings from almost...
That some causes and not others are accorded the honorific "root" has consequences. The first is to confer some special legitimacy on one set of grievances and thus on the revolutionary action that is taken in its name...