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...poorest than Blair, and is concerned that injecting more choice into public services will lead to unacceptably different standards of quality. But these disputes have always been "pretty subtle - the sort of thing you have to be a senior civil servant or a think-tank person to put your finger on," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, a Labour advocacy group. As the two men face tough choices this term on pensions, taxes, and benefits for the disabled, they can certainly bridge any gap between them - if they truly want...
...asks Chester Finn, an Assistant Secretary of Education under Reagan and current president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. "Some states were doing a reasonably conscientious job--Florida, Massachusetts. But I have no sympathy for states like Utah that, as best I can tell, were not lifting a finger...
...April 21, police arrested 39-year-old Anna Ayala at her home outside Las Vegas. Ayala, who made headlines when she claimed that she had come across part of a human finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s restaurant in San Jose, California on March 22, was taken into custody on charges of attempted grand larceny after law enforcement officials declared her story to be a hoax...
What’s alarming about the fast food finger fiasco isn’t just that it involved a woman allegedly inserting a disembodied finger into her own bowl of chili, but that she assumedly did so as part of a concocted get-rich-quick scheme. True, I make an assumption here about Ayala’s motives, but when she hired an attorney and threatened to sue immediately after reporting her fraudulent claim, Ayala made that assumption a safe...
Excessive and frivolous lawsuits, and the culture of blame that they engender, are regrettable and damaging. As Americans continue to be enslaved by the compulsion to point the (severed, chili-stained) finger, however, the rest of the world has little choice but to sit back and watch in amusement...