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...However, the fringes also contain more disruptive elements. These range from the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP), which campaigns to pull Britain out of the E.U., to France's Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, a comedian of Cameroonian descent whose declared primary aim is "wiping out Zionism" in the world. The only pan-European party, with 600 affiliated candidates standing across the E.U., is the fiercely Euroskeptic Libertas, led by Irish millionaire Declan Ganley. (Read "How One Man Plans to Sink the European Union...
...Having to cope with high usage and an agonizingly slow computer response time led Draves to an upsetting conclusion. “I quickly realized that you basically had to pull an all-nighter to get any work done,” he says. “During the day the machine was basically too slow and unusable. You had to be there really late at night when no one was there...
...disabled person completely changes the scope of almost every aspect of one’s daily life. Nowhere is this burden greater than for the parents of a disabled child, a population that has been shown in medical studies to undergo more physical stress than almost any group. To pull the plug on support for this dedicated demographic is unacceptable. A defining characteristic of our species is its care for the sick, and for the government to turn its back on this mission, even in the midst of a tough financial climate, demonstrates a startling confusion of priorities...
...Perhaps we should take a minute to pull out our magnifying glasses and try to find the party that governed not so long ago. To foreign observers, the present state of U.S. politics may seem merely amusing, but the problem is a serious one—no country can function well under an essentially uni-partisan system. Democracy can only work in an environment of plurality and of checks and balances...
Picture a pack of playing cards sorted into suits. Shuffle the cards together and deal them out into new piles, but imagine that cards with similar affinities will gravitate toward each other. The original suits will exert some pull, but cards of like denominations might also attract one another. Perhaps face cards will form a group, or even red-card black-card societies. If subtle affinities like these are allowed to play a role during the deal, what is the likelihood that you’ll deal out the original suits...