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Administration supporters contend that this measure will primarily affect "double dippers"-civil service or military employees who retire early, collect generous federal pensions and then work just long enough in other jobs to qualify for the minimum Social Security benefit. Democrats claim that the change will reduce benefits for some...
Of course the majority does not plan on pulling political ads. But what about an ad submitted by the National Socialist Party of America? Or what about a full page ad which has already appeared in the Crimson last week, submitted by the Conservative Caucus and urging the elimination of...
The book is at its best when Stratton quotes long segments of the memoirs without interruption. The ungarnished language of these pioneers presents a quiet celebration of lives simply lived, without grand ambition, self-glorification or moralizing, Mother never judged, one frontier daughter recalls. "She always saw all sides and...
The antiabortionists equate the morality of slavery with the morality of abortion. Slaves were deserving of equal protection under the law because there was no question about whether they were alive. The fetus is not separate from its mother. It is not a life but a potential life.
A more immediate cause of the riots, according to many Brixtonians, was the provocative behavior of the overwhelmingly white British police force (only 286 blacks and Asians belong to the 117,000-member police force in England and Wales). In the past two years Brixton had been targeted by the...