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...considered `competent' to make such a decision, any more than a person who chooses to leap out of a window in the belief that he can fly.'' It is quite possible that for the next few months, auditors of the Long Island trial will be treated to the dubious spectacle of the gesticulations such a person makes--before he hits the ground...
...next 20 planes for $11.4 billion, or $570 million each. That is well below the $2.2 billion that each of the first 20 B-2s cost. Even minus their hefty development cost, the first batch cost more than $1 billion a plane. But Northrop's new price tag is dubious, and the bargain questionable. Defense experts expect the final price to balloon. More important, U.S. taxpayers could be buying a flying white elephant with scant strategic value because the key weapons it requires to justify the investment don't exist...
...around in a leather bustier or pick her teeth with a riding crop. If she has a problem -- and clearly she does -- it's that somehow, characterologically speaking, she doesn't add up. A vigorous advocate of the poor, she devoted much of the '80s, yuppie fashion, to dubious schemes for the accumulation of loot. A feminist, she's been faulted for doing little to advance women's careers in her husband's Administration. Motivated by the noblest intentions no doubt, she nonetheless came up with what was, from almost any ideological perspective, the health- care plan from hell...
...already have, it wouldn't be a smashing success. Some of the information technologies that so pervade Washington life have not only failed to cure our ills but actually seem to have made them worse. Intensely felt public opinion leads to the impulsive passage of dubious laws; and meanwhile, the same force fosters the gridlock that keeps the nation from balancing its budget, among other things, as a host of groups clamor to protect their benefits. In both cases, the problem is that the emerging cyberdemocracy amounts to a kind of "hyperdemocracy": a nation that, contrary to all Beltway-related...
...have guessed, the result was more gratifying viscerally than intellectually. "Three strikes" was notable not only for the shortage of politicians eager to loudly denounce it but also for the shortage of policy analysts who enthusiastically embraced it. While liberals deemed it draconian, many conservatives found it a constitutionally dubious exertion of federal power, as well as a sloppy form of draconianism. The law does nothing to raise the cost of the first two strikes, and meanwhile spends precious money imprisoning men past middle age, after most of them have been pacified by ebbing testosterone, free of charge. Of course...