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...unabashedly partial to a town where gin and tonics are available on the street, and even more partial when I'm invited to the party. I can't say what downtown Fort Madison or Burlington will look like in 10 years, or in 25, but I drank to their future, and to the future of every community that stands up to the steamroller. There is some evidence that as the work force becomes more flexible, more of the people who can work from home are choosing downtowns. Ground-floor and second-floor occupancy rates were up in Main Street towns...
...seem, if not innocuous by comparison, then at least pretty much the same old American thing. The dilemmas remain. The Supreme Court in recent days has handed down decisions on gays in the Boy Scouts, Miranda rights, prayer at high school football games, and - disgracefully - on partial birth abortion. Whitman's day had the Dred Scott decision, which denied American citizenship to blacks. The Supreme Court, never truly the last word on anything, has much to answer...
Also, many Unionists have viewed the I.R.A.'s arms concession as an attempt to wriggle out of yet another peace agreement. In February, the I.R.A. had agreed to partial disarmament in return for the continuation and furthering of the independence of Ireland. However, after refusing to begin disarming, the British government resumed rule of Ireland...
...Senate Majority Leader and other congressional Republican honchos, an influx of U.S. goods will help force China's communist bureaucracy to democratize, but would only strengthen the hand of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Which is why the GOP leadership is fighting to stop a bill authorizing a partial lifting of trade sanctions against Cuba from reaching the House floor. Embarrassing Lott is the fact that the measure was initiated by Washington Republican representative George Nethercutt; even more embarrassing is that despite the efforts by GOP congressional leaders to maintain the Cuba-embargo shibboleth on the Hill, Nethercutt and his allies...
...example correct a student has to correctly complete 10-14 mixed computations in addition to the correct placement of the partial products, which depend on place value knowledge or remembering the rote rule. This is a wonderful example of an exercise that is far more easily solved mentally. Perhaps we should be teaching this...