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Often the saw or caulking mallet falls silent while I listen to that whispering, hearing the view from Paris about how the phrase "Native American" subverts United States immigrant assimilation, the opinion from India about the unwillingness of United States intellectuals to seriously analyze Federal farm policy, the laughter from Spain about American feminists as unable to go top-free on beaches as they are unable to nudge Congress toward state-funded daycare, the careful analysis from a half-dozen countries of Muslim imperialism versus the iconography of Madonna, the reminder from Rome that Italy once governed one-third...
...that Edgar Allen Poe is rumored to have said that "cellar door is the most beautiful phrase in the English language...
...Senator's personal appearances weren't helping. As much as Dole probably hates the phrase, if only because of who coined it, it applies to watching him on the campaign trail: you feel his pain. He showed up Tuesday morning for what was to be a triumphant victory speech before the state legislature; these were his people, the sheep of his pasture, and if he ever hoped for an inspiring moment, this was as good a chance as any. But all night his staff had fought over what he should say. The first draft, largely written by Mari Maseng Will...
Conservatives and liberals all seem to regard the high-tech entrepreneur as the ideal economic agent. They do so with good reason, for if capitalism is "creative destruction," in Joseph Schumpeter's famous phrase, then people like Marc Andreessen, Steve Jobs, Jeff Braun, Bill Schrader and Doug Colbeth are responsible for the creating part. But is there much that conservative or liberal policies can really do to nurture such enterprise? Would Marc Andreessen work harder under a flat tax? The creating part of capitalism is the part that economic laws do not explain. Like a code writer and his code...
...conservative Republicans, with Representative Henry J. Hyde at the vanguard, the provision mandates fines and prison terms for those who make "indecent" material available to minors. Even Newt Gingrich did not support this measure. The flaws inherent in this bill become apparent during a straightforward examination of the phrase make indecent material available to minors...