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...things turned out the National Government were obliged to take Sterling off gold (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Their next bold policy, after winning a general election in which they asked for a "free hand," was to scrap historic Free Trade and clap on protective tariffs which have given all British activities tremendous impetus. Today the Empire has happy sensations of lifting itself by its own bootstraps rapidly out of Depression...
Looking out from Harvard Square, it is easy to lament the sclerotic pace of trade liberalization. The European Union and United States have been throwing scrap metal and agricultural produce at one another as if they were in some kind of domestic dispute, with the World Trade Organization playing marriage counselor...
...soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?" SPECIALIST THOMAS WILSON, of the Tennessee National Guard, to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, in a town-hall meeting with soldiers at Camp Buehring in Kuwait; later a reporter revealed that he had prompted Wilson to ask the question...
...marvelous job of achieving its purpose. If the Electoral College were abolished, would presidential candidates ever visit the less populous states? Probably not. The Electoral College is still valuable. It may need some reform, but it should not be eliminated. Janice Smith Philadelphia It is high time to scrap the U.S. Electoral College system and award electoral votes based on the percentage of votes each candidate wins, as the Colorado amendment proposal mandates [Oct. 18]. Awarding a state's electoral votes on a winner-take-all basis makes no sense. To change the Electoral College system, a constitutional amendment...
...tale about a scientist on the run from scary-gross interdimensional aliens. This had never been done before. Half-Life 2 (PC), which arrives Nov. 16, after six years of work, is one of the most frighteningly atmospheric games I've ever seen. Humanity came out of its interdimensional scrap holding the silver medal, and now we live in an alien-run police state enforced by collaborationist thugs and towering three-legged monstrosities. Long, ringing silences, too bright sunlight and empty streets deepen the sense of Orwellian despair...