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...news for consumers could get worse. In September, SCI, dogged by Loewen at every turn, launched a hostile bid to seize control of its foremost rival and increase its dominance of the death business in key U.S. markets. Yet despite the likely repercussions, the threatened takeover has drawn scant popular attention--chiefly because the consolidation of the industry has so far occurred, by design, well out of public view. The Loewen-O'Keefe story, however, provides a look at just what an SCI-Loewen combination could hold in store for future next...
...real leader might begin by ending this disingenuous crusade to censor music and the arts. Inadequate education, poor health services, grim housing, scant job opportunities and brutal, racist cops are the cause of urban violence and decay, not rap lyrics. Stop using the arts as a scapegoat...
Indeed, that you allowed the column attacking Padilla to run at all without considering the possible defamation involved demonstrates not only that you have difficulty comprehending and tolerating opinions dissimilar from yours, but that you also have scant understanding of the maturity and care required to run a newspaper...
After losing to Bart Gordon by a scant 2,174 votes in 1994, Gill takes another swing this fall. The two share some key stands--both are pro-life and support capital-gains tax cuts--but Gill argues he would be a more effective reformer. The only Tennesseean ever selected as a White House fellow, Gill served President Bush as director of intergovernmental affairs, helping to develop international-trade policy, which he teaches at Belmont University in Nashville...
...novelty only lasts so long. Whenever you need to change or quickly rush to class without answering questions and being photographed, it is tough to be a celebrity--a Harvard Student on display. First-floor living means captivity--the need to shut out the scant sunlight that enters the room because your half-naked physique might offend a passer-by. And, if it is afternoon and you can reasonably assume no "inappropriateness" will be going on, your open shades are greeted by telephoto lenses and the criss-cross pattern of the window screen on a stranger's nose...