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...other solution is even simpler and even more improbable. If people could understand that most tax money, especially on the local level where there are no ICBM's to build, funds sane and necessary projects, the clamor to cut taxes might stop. That seems unlikely, however, in a society willing to cut out remedial reading programs in order to increase disposable income. After all, what's reading when you can buy a Betamax...
...name soar screeching into the sky, customers down their last sip of $20-a-bottle beer and head for the safety of home. Long before the 10 p.m. curfew, when the crackle of machine guns begins to reverberate across the seven hills of Uganda's capital, no sane person is on the streets. Not even hospitalized patients are safe from attack. Last week unidentified gunmen barged into a ward of Kampala's Mulago Hospital and seriously wounded Businessman Gaster Nsubuga, who was being treated for injuries suffered in a previous attack. Says a Western diplomat: "This place...
...overthrow the occupying Danes and become King of Sweden. Satan's motive is chiefly to perpetuate unrest and chaos. History, after all, has been running on his side: "Magellan had recently circled the globe, opening vast new avenues for greed and war. Europe had more mad kings than sane, and the Devil had both the One True Church and the infant Protestant Revolution in the palm of his hand. In Germany, the very ideas that had filled him with alarm, when they'd broken out in Wittenberg, were now the occasion of such dissension and slaughter that...
...himself is a Devil's lie"? Is the term might makes right "profoundly true? Suppose that there is in fact no good in the world except that which survives. " How is it possible to act according to the "commandments of a god who had not spoken to anyone sane for 15 centuries...
...Safe, sane and stable, the $2 trillion bond market used to provide a sinecure for men of high breeding and low wattage while supporting orphans, saving widows from penury and generating far more money than the stock market did for corporations and governments. Now this primary source of long-term lending has been pulverized by the twin forces of inflation and soaring interest rates, and staid bond dealers talk like teen-agers trading bubble-gum cards or posters of Pop heroes. They speak of swapping "Bo Dereks" and "James Bonds," slang for big bond issues that mature...