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Candidates campaigning on issues like reducing congressional perks, staff size and term limits try to tap into a weak public desire for reform which is overshadowed by a stronger desire for venting anger. Measures like these merely try to rein in a system widely advertised as out of control, without addressing the reasons why the system itself evolved in that particular...
...point being made. Unfortunately, though, Stone seems too arrogant to allow his voice to be hampered or his visual talents honed. As he has shown with some miserable movies in the past, and as "Natural Born Killers" only serves to substantiate, if Stone does not lose his arrogance and rein in his talent, his is only destined to continue making deplorable, overt failures of movies that happened to be visually superb...
Further, censorship is inevitably a slippery slope; it is entirely dependent on an individual or group's determination of what has value, a judgment that may not reflect the speakers, much less that of society. But in Frank's United States, the government will apparently have free rein to determine what is "legitimate...
Further, Samuels is apparently not at all concerned about when or how administrators might choose to use card key data if given free rein. Until the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard proposed a set of restrictions last spring, there were no written barriers to the use of the data...
...future, my career--god knows. Luckily, my parents were away this crucial week, and I had free rein of their spacious New York apartment, and ample time now only to watch television and eat things like goat cheese but also to read back issues of all the snappy periodicals that seem to accumulate there in my absence...