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...when most academics are becoming more technical and narrow in scope, Sen demonstrates that technical intellect and encyclopedic knowledge can go together," he said. "He is not only highly respected in economics and philosophy, but has also influenced ideas of nationality, famine and economic development...
...mining, real estate and countless other interests, tax rates went up. Just as other countries were imitating our reform because they knew that capital and talent would otherwise migrate to nations with lower tax rates, we got back into the habit of listening to the narrow interests and passing the bill along to the average taxpayer...
...political-action committees. PACs, which bundle money from people of similar special interests, engender candidates with narrow agendas that contribute to legislative gridlock. We should just get rid of PACs altogether. It will heal a lot of electoral ulcers and still permit individuals who care about issues to contribute on their...
With the President having moved such a distance, what is there left to fight about? Plenty, it turns out, and in the p.r. battle, Clinton seems to have the advantage. For one thing, a narrow plurality of the public say they have more confidence in Clinton than in congressional Republicans on the tax issue, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released last week. Clinton's 43%-to-40% edge is a startling turnaround in comparison with shortly after the 1994 election, when the public that had handed control of Congress to the Republicans rated the party 22 points ahead...
Anyone who believes that humans are the only intelligent life-form in the universe is ignorant and narrow-minded. Since we can achieve space travel, we can conclude that in this vast universe others have also done so, and that their technology may be even more advanced than ours, allowing them to reach other solar systems. There are a lot of people out there who are lying and just trying to make a buck from this phenomenon, but there is also validity. GENE PATTERSON Palmetto...