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...drug users only intensifies the problems of drug use. Addicts who have served time in prison not only still face the nightmare of trying to quit but also have a criminal record that multiplies their difficulties if they try to become productive members of society. We add the terrible handicap of a prison record to those who often begin with the disadvantage of lack of education and come from an environment of poverty. If this country would decriminalize drugs and regulate and tax their sale, not only would we eliminate the drug lords' great wealth and the violence they perpetrate...
...State University, the junior Senator from New York eloquently articulated the critical difference between the two proposed paths to universal healthcare coverage, defended a nuanced plan to navigate the dicey waters of NAFTA politics, and hammered home Senator Obama’s relative foreign policy inexperience as a fundamental handicap for a potential Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces. And still, she could very well lose Ohio...
...Apatow movie like The 40 Year-Old Virgin or Knocked Up would labor under another handicap: it's designed to make people laugh. The top Oscar has gone to a handful of comedies (including It Happened One Night and Annie Hall), but generally the Academy prefers to be edified. The year of Citizen Kane, 1941, was also the year of Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve, today regarded as one of the great American comedies, with Stanwyck and Henry Fonda brilliant as a cardsharp predator and her millionaire prey. None of them got even a nomination for this supreme farce...
...Missouri's demographics and its election rules make it particularly tough to handicap a close race here. Because the state mirrors America, every conceivable issue might gain traction - Missouri has nervous factory workers and ethanol-happy farmers; it has failing school districts and wealthy boomers irritated by the estate tax; it has huge corporations alongside angry populists. No one agenda has captured the race...
...maneuvers to prevent that were strengthened by labor stoppages by bank employees, many of them shareholders, whose support of Bouton since the Kerviel debacle has been solid. Despite that collective determination, Mistral says Société Générale's hostility to mergers has become a handicap in a sector where growth and geographical expansion via consolidation is the rule. That position, Mistral continues, means Société Générale has "always been viewed in Europe as being perched on the edge of a cliff, and with very little doubt it will...