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...Still, he's thankful that the new tax bill at least doesn't hurt him. Sure, he believes there's a fundamental inequity about income thresholds for tax breaks and thinks that if they must exist, they should be higher. But he knows it would not be politically correct for someone of his means to complain. So he won't. That's why I'm doing...
This past spring, as I trekked from interview to interview, I struggled to find the correct answer to one simple question: "Why do you want to work here...
Supporters of the bills say they correct a problem created in 1974, when new legislation channeled nearly all young offenders to the juvenile system. What isn't clear is whether moving young criminals back to adult courts has much impact on crime. According to a recent study by the liberal National Center for Initiatives and Alternatives, Connecticut has the highest juvenile-to-adult transfer rate and Colorado the lowest, yet their youth-crime rates are the same. Since the 1970s, New York has been automatically trying as adults kids 16 and older charged with serious crimes. In the same period...
...premium on pith is enshrined in perhaps science's most important law, known as the law of parsimony, or Ockham's razor. It states, in essence, that when confronted with two or more explanations for a phenomenon, we assume that the more compact, less complicated, simpler one must be correct...
Connerly may be correct when he states that "we have used racial preferences to prop up a system of artificial diversity instead of doing the heavy lifting that leads to real equality." His desire to see affirmative action dismantled, however, is premature. Using Connerly's metaphor, wouldn't it be wiser to do the heavy lifting first, thus building a solid foundation before hastily tearing down the prop? That way, no one will end up under a pile of rubble. KURT TEZEL Merritt Island...