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Sometimes the guns are for protection, a youngster's seemingly prudent response to the small-arms race among his peers. But often, guns and gunfights are just a defense against the inexplicable despair that torments so many American teenagers. While the basic destructive impulses of rebellious young men remain unchanged, the methods of rebellion are now far more dangerous. Today's miscreants know that a pistol says much more than long hair or a pierced nose ever could. Not just louder, but forever. With a $25 investment, all the teasing from classmates stops cold. Suddenly, the shortest, ugliest and weakest...
...think it's just prudent to sit and wait and see what happens," Verba said...
...ever a centerpiece of his economic program, much as he once erroneously denied that his pledge of tax relief for the middle class was the linchpin of the scheme he propounded so successfully during the Democratic primaries. Backtracking on campaign promises is par for the course (and often prudent), but cavalier dissembling strains a President's credibility and complicates his task immeasurably...
...must start to ask themselves what hope they hold for American democracy. Are they going to spend their entire lives sneering for fear of a mistaken swoon? For liberals especially, Clinton is something of a last chance -- and an unexpected chance at that. Under these circumstances, hope seems almost prudent...
Bonds earning about $40,000 a game? How can the Giants afford that? As Peter Magowan, the Giants' new managing partner, tells it, signing Bonds was a prudent move. "We had three guys playing left field last year at $2.5 million," he explains. "People keep talking about $43 million for Bonds, but he's getting less than the $7 million average during the first year. You throw in 150,000 more fans, and that's $1.5 million off that cost. And we have a much better team." This kind of baseball economics makes as much sense as Ronald Reagan...