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Q. It is your desire to make the margins of these regulations more rational?
Washington blamed the latest impasse on what it regards as the inability of Iran's power-seeking factions to take a rational view of what is best for their nation. New political tensions within the country may also have contributed to the sudden toughening of Iran's demands...
DIED. Ben Travers, 94, British playwright whose comedies about rational people struggling with outrageous circumstances tickled audiences for five decades; in London. Travers kept the laughs coming right up to 1976, when at 89 he staged The Bed Before Yesterday, a hit sex farce starring Joan Plowright.
A born-again conservative, he tends to hold fervent and dogmatic views. He once told an interviewer: "At 20, it sounds great to say that self-interest is the most destructive force in society. Now I believe that self-interest is an inherent part of the human condition and what...
The Citizens Crime Watch is rational and effective. It is refreshing to see equal space given to a sensible and successful crime-fighting technique based on community organization and police support, not individual anger, frustration and revenge with a gun.