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Alexis de Tocqueville neatly outlined every consequence of randomization 133 years ago in his immortal Old Regime and the French Revolution. As the book clearly shows, randomization could be the crucial step that turns University Hall into the greatest center of despotic power since the Parisian mob stormed Versailles...
...insoluble problems in the future. "The ! most formidable obstacles to action," says Benedick, are "the entrenched economic and political interests" of the world's most advanced nations. It is in those countries, warns Sir Crispin Tickell, Britain's Ambassador to the U.N., that "the pain of adjustment will be greatest...
...only last July that pro-life forces were cheering themselves hoarse? After years of battling in the streets, the legislatures and the courts, they had won their greatest victory: a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, Inc. that gives states enhanced power to restrict abortions. It was only a matter of time, pro-lifers predicted, before abortions were severely restricted, if not banned...
This version of Carroll's classic children's tale certainly is modernized, steeped in allusions to current events and even featuring a rap song. But Alice in Wonderland: Film at Eleven has 130 years to coalesce and does not always do so with the greatest of ease...
...what exactly is wrong with Debbie Gibson, the greatest singer to enter the American musical community since Amy Grant...