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...words, once again, were gorgeous. This is a President who has uttered more stunning sentences than any since Reagan. It would be hard for even Bush's most hateful opponents to gainsay such sentiments as "America will not pretend that jailed dissidents prefer their chains or that women welcome humiliation and servitude ..." And so Bush's critics have an uphill struggle. They risk sounding pinched, curmudgeonly. It is impossible to dispute the superiority of freedom over tyranny, of democracy over dictatorship...
This is not how most people buy a house, largely because it is not the way the nation's dominant real estate firms, including Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA and ReMax, choose to do business. The big guys on the block prefer the old way: their agents usher clients door to door and show house after house. Frequently the houses are closely held listings on which the agents have exclusives, and they pocket a hefty 5%-to-7% commission on each sale. Today that clubby world is being shaken more and more by a handful of upstarts. Internet interlopers like...
What should concern the White House most is that Thomas said out loud what many other Republicans have been whispering: that with midterm elections in two years, they are wary of tampering with a program as popular as Social Security and, if they have to, would prefer to consider alternative ideas. Thomas, who thinks Social Security may need to be funded with revenues other than payroll contributions, hinted that to ensure the program's solvency, Bush should consider raising taxes--an option the President rejects. Chiming in, Representative Jim McCrery of Louisiana, head of the Ways and Means subcommittee...
...powers and functions--related to everything from dockyards to coinage. In fairness, how could anyone reasonably expect such a document to compete, in our romantic imagination, with another resounding with trumpet fanfares extolling life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Just as American conversations and American journalism will always prefer elections over governance, so Americans read the Declaration as poetry, the Constitution as prose...
Talk radio hosts might be one thing. But it particularly disappointing to see Harvard professors, such as the 19 members of the FAS Standing Committee on Women, attacking Summers by politicizing his academic and speculative remarks and drawing potentially misleading implications from them. Surely they would not prefer to be treated likewise by Summers. Political correctness seems somehow to have slipped through our Ivy-covered gates and infiltrated even brilliant minds within the academy...