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...back in power. Japan Inc. is trying to meet the challenges of the new century by rewarding innovation over seniority, and young Japanese are founding companies that don't rely on inefficient armies of salarymen. Unless Japan is willing to shake up its political system, too, the country - no matter who's anointed on Sunday - may end up getting the leader it deserves. It could do so much better...
...awakes in the future to discover that everything considered bad for you - namely smoking and eating deep-fried foods - was actually beneficial to your health. What with all our present-day scientific "revelations" about what's bad (or good) for us, I've always believed it was only a matter of time before the premise of Sleeper began to materialize in the real world...
...your finger. Rake him over the coals. But don't weep for us Pats fans, because we aren't innocent victims; we're co-conspirators. Belichick understands us perfectly. He knows that as long as he wins, all will be forgiven. And that once he stops, it won't matter if he becomes Mother Teresa. He doesn't care about being fair to the other team; he doesn't even really care about his own players. He just wants to win. He'd make an excellent...
...think it's a matter of not telling the truth. The Senate didn't force them to answer questions about their judicial philosophy, so they didn't. It's just that they didn't answer the most important questions, because they didn't have...
...rules. They are the commissioners of baseball. In fact, they are more like Abner Doubleday than an umpire. Deciding whether race can be used in college admissions, deciding whether states can ban abortion: those are not purely legal judgments. Those are political judgments, and the views of the Justices matter more than the Court precedents on questions like that...