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...machine as a club to beat the U.S. government into submission. Spiritual values and beliefs have no place in the affairs of the Republic. Attempts to legislate religion-based issues have perpetrated more evil than anything else in the history of humankind. The progress of civilization requires as a minimum the separation of church and state. ANNABELLE REEVE Oakland, California...
Furthermore, effecting this change during reading period ensures a minimum of student outrage. Had the announcement been made in April, when it was promised, Jewett and Lewis could be sure of an outcry; now that students are preoccupied with exams and the summer, there will be little or none...
...waited in lines at the department of motor vehicles; why are some of us so eager to ignore experience and ascribe to government a kind of Herculean can-do-ness? Here's one theory: if you're squeaking by on the minimum wage, it's probably more satisfying to focus your resentments on a coven of fbi Trilateralists than it is to curse abstractions like economic restructuring or low Filipino wages (no one's much interested in divining corporate conspiracies...
...Arkansas term-limit law and similar measures passed by 21 other states. It is likely to slow the populist rush for such limits, at least for a while. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said that the Constitution prohibits states from imposing qualifications upon candidates beyond minimum age, residency and citizenship --the ones explicitly stated in its text. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, saying the Constitution is simply silent on the issue. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said today's decision demonstrated the need for aconstitutional amendment to limit congressional terms. Such an amendment failed in the House...
President Kennedy replied that Democrats were the party of change, while Republicans had opposed many of their social programs, such as higher minimum wages, Social Security and health care...