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Even more than money, political inheritance mocks our pretenses to equal opportunity. Anyone can grow up to be President, but anyone named Bush (or Gore, for that matter) has a much better chance. Political inheritance mocks the populist, anti-Washington pretenses that voters and pols overwhelmingly share. Someday there will be families whose motto could be "Three generations of voting for term limits...
...gave Saddam Hussein substantive financial aid to improve the lot of his people--aid equal to the value of the war that would have been fought--would Saddam become more or less of a threat? Folks who have nothing have nothing to lose. So give them something. SELBY FRANK Caledon, South Africa...
...planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike in 25 years came to pass. But as the 48-hour shutdown ended, there was no collective sigh of relief either. With the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) planning an eight-day walkout starting Nov. 22 - and two more of equal duration in the run-up to Christmas - there will be plenty of opportunities for those scenarios to play out. Ironically, the absence of a major disaster last week may have reduced the chances of a deal on the firemen's pay demands. A calamity would have focused both sides' minds...
...speakers at the second annual “Road to Success” panel focused mostly on ways to achieve justice and create equal opportunities for racial minorities...
...want to anchor things back to runs,” he says. “I always want to get away from statistics and be more of a solid measure of things...If I have nine players of equal ability, this is exactly what would happen. You can prove it’s right using math a good high school student would know. If you played baseball on the moon and averaged 300 runs a game, the formula would still be legitimate...