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...these events have sparked a renewed discussion of the merits of the death penalty, neither court case should actually determine the outcome of the debate. It was widely rumored that several representatives changed their votes as a result of the "flawed" Woodward verdict. Well-informed debate, not current events, ought to inform the decisions our legislators make...
...enjoy one perk: some may believe that his status as a former candidate qualifies him to be an election analyst. In what follows, I test this hypothesis by endorsing a pair of candidates in the upcoming council election, and offering my analysis of where the council is and ought to be going. If some of you accept my evaluation, then perhaps finishing second was not entirely without reward...
STAY HOME! Workers with respiratory illnesses probably ought to stay away from work and keep their contagious germs to themselves. Yet a survey shows that nearly 85% go into the office anyway. One reason cited: they feel guilty about calling in sick...
...what? As TIME?s Pentagon correspondent Dick Thompson pointed out Wednesday, you can manufacture nerve gas in a 10?x10? room. How many 10?x10? rooms can there be in Iraq? That?s an awful lot of haystacks to grope around in. Perhaps those weapons inspectors ought to quit while they?re ahead, and take up more promising positions ? like in Ted Kaczynski?s defense team...
PARIS: Ever since the arrival of protease inhibitors, Americans could be forgiven for feeling that the fight against AIDS was all over but the shouting. New figures from the United Nations Wednesday ought to wipe away such complacency, however: It turns out that we've underestimated the number of AIDS cases by a third. Indeed, as many as 1 in every 100 sexually active adults has the HIV virus...