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...shortage of policy analysts who enthusiastically embraced it. While liberals deemed it draconian, many conservatives found it a constitutionally dubious exertion of federal power, as well as a sloppy form of draconianism. The law does nothing to raise the cost of the first two strikes, and meanwhile spends precious money imprisoning men past middle age, after most of them have been pacified by ebbing testosterone, free of charge. Of course, on the positive side, the law does have a catchy title. (How would the crime bill read if baseball allowed each batter five strikes...
...this imbalance would also have had a second effect: making pesos precious, thus lessening pressure to devalue. Alas for the peso, Perot's nightmare failed to materialize. U.S. imports from Mexico did grow sharply ; -- by $7 billion, to reach $40 billion, within 10 months; but, as free traders had predicted, so did exports to Mexico -- by $8 billion, reaching $42 billion. Thus Mexico's worldwide trade gap -- now around $30 billion -- never got the relief implied by Perot's fears. Its currency finally crumpled under the pressure...
...years ago, Harvard Extension School student and Mineralogical Museum employee James A. Hogue was arrested for stealing nearly $100,000 in precious gems from the museum...
...conviction is widespread that sexual morality and conduct are private concerns, strictly between individuals and their consciences. But who guides those consciences? the Pope would ask. Many population experts see a future tide of babies as a problem to be solved; the Pope sees these infants-in- waiting as precious lives, the gifts of God. The church's doctrine that condoms should not be used under any circumstances has provoked, in the age of AIDS, deep anger. Henri Tincq, who writes on religious subjects for Paris' Le Monde, sums up this reaction, "The church's refusal of condoms even...
Spending all of our precious dough...