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...TIME/CNN poll suggests he may be right: 45% of those polled believe the country will be better off with the Senate in Democratic hands, while 36% prefer Republican control, and 19% aren't sure. But this balancing act may also be a formula for gridlock, with each side able to block the other but neither able to push its priorities. If no one budges, "we're all losers," Daschle said...
...much. We don't travel much. We cobble together work, meals and outside activities. Financially, we don't do as well as married parents, but we cling to the consolation prize of fiscal independence. Without a marriage to tend, we give our children all our energy, and much prefer their company to the occasional blind dates we force ourselves to go on. We don't like the way bitterness tastes in the back of our mouth, so we swallow...
...Bush and Cheney won't even consider price caps in California; they'd prefer not to repeal the 18-percent gas tax because it probably wouldn't work (meaning, the 18 percent would go back into Big Oil's pockets). And most importantly, they'll never lift a finger to stop deregulation, which when it's done right has the benefit of producing the amount - and the kind - of power that people actually want...
...recognize the concern that open ballots might create embarrassing situations for candidates. Surely some candidates would prefer that their selection be conducted by secret ballot. But students who volunteer for positions of public service necessarily open themselves to public scrutiny and evaluation. A concern for their feelings should not prevent the council from serving its constituency...
...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few, and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...