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...Republicans who now control Congress promise to cut taxes on the "middle class," but their definition extends to families with income of $200,000 a year. And the G.O.P. prefers to pay for new tax cuts by cutting spending on the poor and the bureaucracies that purport to serve them, rather than on upper-income Americans and business interests. Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week brushed off the inequities of Social Security and its projected insolvency, which he dismissed as "an abstraction that is 25 years from now." He added that it is "utterly irrational" to alarm retirees about...
...think it's a far greater offense to be lumped together for what I think," he says. "There are many Asians like me who don't agree with their views. It's frustrating when they purport to be an association for all Asian students at Harvard. It's true that we're perceived as a group, but there's a big cleavage among Asian concerns...
...Asian American, doesn't the Asian American Association purport to represent my views? Am I not, implicitly and involuntarily, a de facto member...
...talking about these matters is hardly novel. Didn't we all have Sex Fd in sixth grade? Yes, but Levin is neither the scientist interested in reducing Fros to its bio-mechanics nor the campus activist who attempts to equate Fros with a slogan. Levin doesn't purport to master this force, only to channel it. By invoking seduction, Levin's lectures become seductions unto themselves...
...tried to justify their continuing coverage of the pre-trial hearing: "we are giving Americans a glimpse at their criminal justice system." So this is a typical pre-trial hearing? It is a gnarled mutation of the American criminal justice system, distorted by the same television "news" organizations that purport to reveal the true system to Americans. In a perfunctory attempt to separate themselves from other televisual entertainment, the TV news media has pounced on these grave issues with a cynical ferocity that could be well described as vulturine, if such a characterization did not insult a species which actually...