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...packed into the office of Democratic Senator Carl Levin that several of the businessmen had to perch on upended attaché cases. Levin warned them that "the whole spirit of Congress is to get away from regulation," but promised to take a careful look at the Danforth bill. Plaintiffs' attorneys, needless to say, oppose all tort-reform plans. They commonly accuse insurers of creating a sense of crisis to enact laws that would deny just compensation to victims of malpractice or injury. More troubling, they insist that all the tort-reform ideas would undermine a fundamental principle of democracy: the idea...
...ironic that so many Americans tore themselves apart over the death of Schiavo but had no qualms about sending thousands of able-bodied young men and women off to Iraq to kill and be killed in a needless war. If those people had spent as much energy trying to keep U.S. service members from killing and getting killed, the war might never have happened. Frank Strylecki Ottawa, Canada...
Moviegoers should probably shut their eyes for the first few seconds of The Journey of Natty Gann and miss the production company's logo. Those who insist that the studio in question maintain certain prissy and unrealistic standards about onscreen language and incident will thus be spared needless outrage upon hearing the film's adolescent heroine mutter the odd four-letter word on stressful occasions, for example when she has to fight off a man intent on molesting her. Those who have a different set of expectations for the company's works will not feel obliged to hedge their enthusiasm...
...ironic that so many Americans tore themselves apart over the death of Schiavo but had no qualms about sending thousands of able-bodied young men and women off to Iraq to kill and be killed in a needless...
...tuna a week. Unfortunately, that warning came a few months after the birth of my first child--which meant I spent the next 72 hours frantically weighing piles of fish flakes to determine how much damage my weekly tuna sandwich might have inflicted on my wee son during gestation. Needless to say, this time around, not one morsel of tuna salad has passed my expectant lips...