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...barring Congress from enacting any pay raises for itself that would take effect before the next general election--an idea first introduced in 1789. Oft-proposed amendments to require a balanced budget, permit prayer in public schools and ban flag burning have never made it out of Congress. The Equal Rights Amendment, which was meant to invalidate state and federal laws that discriminate against women, did emerge from Washington, only to grind to a halt in state legislatures in a process that took 10 years...
...mistake to reduce gays' campaign for equal marriage rights to a dollar figure, but marriage has been a partly financial arrangement since it was invented. "Some of the reasons [to marry] are intangible," says Evan Wolfson of the group Freedom to Marry. "But others are tangible, and they all matter." --By John Cloud
What about the much publicized marriage penalty? It's true that well-off husbands and wives who earn roughly equal amounts usually end up paying more than if they had filed separately, as gays must. But according to the Congressional Budget Office, marriage penalties are actually less common than marriage bonuses (which often go to couples with stay-at-home moms). Each year the government grants more than $32 billion in marriage bonuses (compared with the $28 billion it receives in penalties...
...Cahill brought about a truce was to bring in a cadre of Kerry's longtime Boston operatives. They had been shut out by her predecessor, Jim Jordan, who had made no secret of the fact that he regarded most of them as small-time hacks. They held Jordan in equal regard and let Kerry know at every back-channel opportunity. Jordan had also butted heads with media consultant Bob Shrum, who has rarely been on the losing side of an internal battle...
...cultivation has spread from eight provinces in 1994 to 28 today. U.N. experts expect this year's crop to yield 3,600 tons of opium--75% of the world's heroin. According to the U.N., the combined income of poppy farmers and opium smugglers last year was $2.32 billion--equal to half of Afghanistan's official GDP. A Western anti-narcotics expert in Kabul estimates that 60% of the country's regional warlords are profiting from the drug traffic, using the cash to fund their armies and, in doing so, weakening the reach of Karzai's government in the provinces...