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...revolving door. Former members of Congress and their aides must wait a year after leaving their posts before lobbying former colleagues. Lawmakers want to double the waiting time to two years. Chance of passage: 90%. Less likely: extending the ban to five years. Meaningless extra: the House will probably pat itself on the back for barring former members turned lobbyists from exercising their right to return to the House floor or mingle in the House gym--a step that sounds tough but isn't. Said a G.O.P. lawmaker: "By the time we get to the floor, we already know...
Scour the Bible all you like for an apologetic prophet-one who publicly regrets having been "insensitive" to his audience-but you'll come up empty. Not so in today's world. Take Pat Robertson, Christian Right pioneer and host of the 700 Club. Last week, within a day of Sharon's massive stroke, the televangelist asserted that it had been God's punishment for leader's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip: "Here he's at the point of death. He was dividing God's land," said Robertson. "For any prime minister of Israel who decides he's going...
There's a basic misunderstanding that stems from studies of children and laboratory animals that were starved of attention and stimulation, says Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. "Everyone heard about the orphans in Romania who were deprived of stimulation as babies, then had learning and emotional problems later," says Levitt. But just because a normal environment is better than a deprived one, that doesn't necessarily mean that a hyperenriched environment is better still. As Levitt puts it: "There is no evidence that says you can drive the baby's system...
...dividing God's land. And I would say: Woe unto any Prime Minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the E.U., the United Nations or the United States of America. God says: This land belongs to me. You better leave it alone." PAT ROBERTSON, American televangelist, suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's massive stroke last week was divine punishment...
...hours of the night when both their authors and readers are putting off writing papers. Another factor is simple pluralism: unlike the world at large, Harvard has (by the most generous count) two newspapers, one of which has a publishing cycle longer than the campaign itself.Before I pat the back of the nascent world of internet journalism and congratulate it on a job well done, however, I want to pause for a moment to think through some of the reasons why we should be wary of accepting too much of our news, if not for campus affairs then at least...