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...when did we start yearning for childhood and simultaneously hating so many of the little people to whom it rightly belongs? An even halfway-liberal presidential candidate would point out that despite all the media fuss over "killer kids" and "wolf packs," it's the grownups who commit 87% of violent crimes, which include plenty of crimes against children. According to the Justice Department, 6 out of 10 violent crimes against children are committed by adults--often the parents or caretakers of the victims...
...just a triumph of miniaturization. Kids really are different, which is what seven-year-old pilot Jessica Dubroff's death last April should have taught us. And the line dividing the kids from the grownups is at least as serious and consequential as that other life-cycle boundary we fuss so much about--the one separating a fetus from a human being...
...cuts have benefited businesses rather than individuals, and his decision to accept money from political-action committees looks all the worse since Kerry turns down those contributions. It doesn't hurt that Weld courts confrontation with the national Republican Party, as he did when he threw a fuss over being banned from giving a pro-abortion rights speech at the G.O.P. convention this summer...
...proposes to make English the official language of the United States. Soon, the Senate will consider the bill and, if passed with no presidential veto, it will become a law. On the surface, this legislation may look innocent, so that a reasonable person may say, "What's the big fuss about...
...short of a return to a peace process that was slow moving even before Netanyahu's government took over," Beyer says. "From Netanyahu's point of view, considering his psychology and previous pronouncements, sitting down with Arafat is a huge step, but from the standpoint of the region, the fuss over the meeting can't be seen as anything but a step backwards. For an Israeli Prime Minister to see talks with a Palestinian leader as a big deal is ridiculous. The peace talks are so far behind where they were when Netanyahu took over, that seeing this meeting...