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Once upon a time, the nation's leaders tried to exorcise the deficit devil with a frightful fairy tale: if they couldn't find the wisdom and courage to reduce spending and raise revenue themselves, a crude wrecking ball would knock many billions from government programs. The threat of an indiscriminate "sequester" of funds, the story went, would be so politically devastating as to scare the government into facing its fiscal responsibilities. That fantasy, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act five years ago, projected a balanced budget by fiscal 1991, which begins Oct. 1. But the brutal...
Joseph R. Palmore doesn't seem too keen on the recent campaign of the Lubbock, Texas school board to rid student attire of various "satanic symbols" ["The Devil Went Down to Texas," Sept. 12]. Fair enough. In my 18 years growing up in Lubbock, the school board managed to do many a foolish thing. Regrettably, however, Palmore's lampoon leaves his Harvard readers with the impression that our hometown (Palmore is from Lubbock, too) is some sort of theocratic backwater, a place where decency and common sense are casualties of the ongoing struggle against "the Evil One." This is simply...
With so much at stake, little niceties like freedom of expression and freedom of religion can be swept under the rug. And if a court of law ever questions the constitutionality of the regulations, school officials can always claim that the Devil made them...
...state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest...
...next steps to her guides from Historic Cannelton, Inc. "It needs a roof, and you'll have to repair and remove those later excretions," she says, referring to an unsightly brick addition. "You have to shake the tree a bit. You just have to get as tenacious as the devil and generate publicity that this isn't a dead whale, that it's a useful community building...