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When these two men talk about the issues in this race, they disagree more than they differ. They both favor balancing the budget by 2002, slowing the growth of Medicare, aiming tax cuts at families, allowing for more choice in education, pushing for tougher criminal penalties, promoting freer trade, spending millions on antimissile defense research, and talking about campaign-finance reform but not doing anything about it. The differences are essentially of degree or speed or enthusiasm. Their most passionate fights are over such issues as late-term abortion, which disturb many people but affect very...
...Democrat in Richmond politics until 1980, when he ran for the House as a Republican, Bliley is now chair of the Commerce Committee. He wants to reduce the committee's legislative power in favor of freer markets and blasted his opponent's proposal to hike tobacco taxes, which he says will cost the district jobs...
Until the money flows, however, online media remains a grand experiment that explores how new-media tools can redefine communication--hypertext that links words to stories and information all over the world, for instance, and message boards that flow directly out of daily stories. "The Net is a much freer medium than the traditional press right now, and people are intoxicated by it," says media critic Jon Katz, who writes a column for HotWired's Netizen www.netizen.com) Katz, whose career has included stints at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Boston Globe, says that when he used to finish writing a print...
...election that seemed spiritless was in fact a demonstration of positive satisfaction in the achievement of a clear, if unimaginative, centrism that most people had wanted for quite a while: fewer guns, tougher laws, lower crime, higher culture (it was never just the economy, stupid), cleaner air, freer trade, better teaching, less deficit, less welfare and abortion rights unchanged...
...Allan Massie, who is also a royals observer, points out that as Prince of Wales, William will have maximum opportunity to let slip things he'll soon regret saying. While a monarch's speeches are cleared with the government of the day, the Prince of Wales is free--or freer anyway--to say what he thinks...