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These scenarios may not come to pass, but the only guarantee they won't lies with the fairmindedness of the same population that overwhelmingly passed the measures. The people have empowered themselves with more than the discretion to pick an official language: they have become arbiters over key civil rights. Millions of Spanish-speaking citizens must now hope that these "true blooded Americans" will sacrifice their own self-interests to protect the rights of others...
These scenarios may not come to pass, but the only guarantee they won't lies with the fairmindedness of the same population that overwhelmingly passed the measures. The people have empowered themselves with more than the discretion to pick an official language: they have become arbiters over key civil rights. Millions of Spanish-speaking citizens must now hope that these "true blooded Americans" will sacrifice their own self-interests to protect the rights of others...
...program was produced by Mal Albaum of HBO, which also handled many of its broadcast logistics. TIME senior editor Terry Zintl provided on-air analysis of the voting results. TIME also distributed guidebooks and a questionnaire on key issues. That survey showed, among other things, that 80% of students and parents opposed new taxes to reduce the federal deficit, and 61% favor a treaty drastically reducing U.S. and Soviet nuclear-missile stockpiles. Asked to compare their future financial prospects with their parents' current circumstances, 43% of the students said they expected to be better off, and only 11% thought their...
...bones of War and Remembrance and see (in the fall chapters, at least) the definitive example of a once flourishing breed: a lumbering but amiable dinosaur, equal parts history and hokum, spectacle and soap opera. The historical narrative plays best, as the series provides a lucid account of the key battles and decisions on which the war turned. It also dramatizes, with chilling bluntness, the Nazi atrocities at Auschwitz, as well as the slaughter of Jews at Babi Yar. Few lines on network TV are as shocking as the remark of a Nazi officer on hearing the wails from inside...
...Borlange group's key proposal was that random checks for steroid use be carried out during training as well as actual competition. Refusal to submit to such checks would carry the same penalties as the discovery of use of any of the drugs, including disqualification and long-term bans from competition. Said Sir Arthur Gold, chairman of Britain's Olympic Association: "With controls during training, we have found a new and forceful weapon in the war against doping." If the weapon is used, that...