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This year Americans will do well in the Peripherals, so maybe we will pay more attention, and we ought to: they are among the great glories of the Games. Figure skaters? Synchronized swimmers on a frozen pool. Freestyle skiers? Hip-hop show-offs. Snowboarders are worse. But the Ps? Elemental. Pure. Thrilling...
...that the commission doesn't keep a written record of every phone call, and that complainants are given the phone number of the appropriate agency to call themselves. At a contentious hearing on the matter, Berry said, "People around the country have expressed their gratitude, so I think we ought to be proud that we're doing this rather than worrying about whether it's helping anybody...
Certainly, Bush has advocated cutting other programs besides those affecting the poor. Highway spending would be cut by a whopping 29.6 percent, eliminating needed repairs and improvements to necessary infrastructure. Even more puzzling are cuts in funding for teaching hospitals at a time when the public health infrastructure ought to be reinforced rather than gutted. These cuts, and many others, seem out of place at a time when the economy needs more public spending as a stimulus...
...week's Enronitis outbreak makes one wonder how long Wall Street's suspicion will last. But if investors can keep it up long enough to make understandability of earnings reports as important as their profitability, they'll at least provide Congress with a road map of how re-regulation ought to proceed. (Not to mention that nothing motivates public officials like falling indexes.) And they might even do what beseiged free-marketeers fervently hope: fix the problem on their...
...response acknowledged that students who were affected personally by the tragedy ought to receive special consideration, but “of the rest of us surely more is demanded, not less...