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...refusing to review a lower court ruling appealed by the National Rifle Association, the United States Supreme Court let stand the town's ordinance against the sale and possession of handguns. Unfortunately, this decision is a rather hollow victory for gun control advocates. The fact that the responsibility for enacting gun control laws has fallen to local governments in towns the size of Morton Grove is just a reminder of a failure to enact a strong law on the national level. While local measures against handgun proliferation are encouraging, they do little to solve the problem, and only comprehensive federal...
...have united over many years to allow research to go forward and not to deny the possibility of progress altogether. Even in the face of strong protest and warnings of grave consequences to follow, we have chosen not to prohibit inquiry but to work through democratic procedures to enact laws that prevent knowledge from being used in undesirable ways. This tradition has been vital to our universities and has served our society well through the years...
Perhaps the fact that the candidates have gone so far as to suggest that they are open to a female Vice-Presidential candidate is encouraging although their hypocritical optimism and enthusiasm about the prospect is not. NOW members, and all feminist activists, should continue to pressure politicians to enact feminist legislations; they should not allow false hopes to be raised which would cause NOW members to slacken their efforts. The idea of a woman in the White House, even in the second position, is not unthinkable: only the perception of that possibility is still prohibitive. And that perception...
...Congress has so far refused to enact a tax increase that will not take effect for three years, while the President has ruled out a quicker hike. Moreover, many lawmakers want less defense spending, and more for social programs, than the White House proposed. The result: a budget gridlock. Observed Alice Rivlin, who left her post as director of the Congressional Budget Office last month and is now the head of economic studies for the Brookings Institution: "Congress believes the White House is not serious about raising taxes." Added Heller: "Congress cannot move until the President does...
...series of Oriental myths suggesting that certain women are capable of using psychic power to possess and manipulate people around them. Mieko Togano, Enchi would have us believe is just such a woman Mieko eventually comes to fully possess her daughter-in-law, Yasuko, whom, she uses to enact a bizarre revenge plot, not directed at anyone in particular, but rather at the vague target of past misfortune Throughout the novel, the obvious passion and energy of Mieko are hidden behind a face which reveals no emotion, similar to the masks actresses wore in Japanese No Dramas...