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These days the wiry 42-year-old A.G. is fast developing a national reputation as a giant slayer. He has led a highly visible campaign against bogus stock advice and is currently going after purveyors of Internet spam. With his knack for tapping into hot-button issues, the question now is not if but when he will run for Governor. "You in New York are so blessed to have an attorney general who just showed what it was like to be a Democrat," James Carville, Bill Clinton's old political guru, gushed in his keynote address to a party convention...
...know that [cadets] have not always felt like Harvard recognizes and appreciates them,” says LaFlamme, who roomed with a cadet last year. “I just feel like this funding issue is such a hot-button issue that it’s only likely to intensify the climate...
...energy on it, and with everybody agreed on the need to reduce our dependence on that nasty foreign oil, some hybrid of the GOP and Democrat bills may even limp through into conference. But energy debates are extra tricky because of all the local interests involved. Everything's a hot-button for somebody, and it may be asking too much in an election year to have legislators compromise on anything. Or pass anything...
...These new developments [in biotechnology] touch the very deepest core of what it means to be a human being. I want to emphasize that in discussing the hot-button issues we want to put these matters in the context of human goods that are precious to defend,” Kass said...
...These new developments [in biotechnology] touch the very deepest core of what it means to be a human being. I want to emphasize that in discussing the hot-button issues we want to put these matters in the context of human goods that are precious to defend,” Kass said...