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...give offense. "All expressions of positiveness in opinion or of direct contradiction were," he recalled, "prohibited under small pecuniary penalties." It was a style he would urge upon the Constitutional Convention 60 years later, and he would wryly say of disputing: "Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh...
What Franklin did have to do was extend to prerevolutionary France a tolerance that did not come easily to a devout republican and a man who seldom met with anything--from bifocals to popcorn to spelling to the Lord's Prayer--that he did not feel he could improve on. While he might well write off European peerages as "a sort of tar-and-feather honour, a mixture of foulness and folly," he kept this view to himself while consorting with the aristocrats who eased the U.S. into being. A year before his return, Franklin did concede, "There...
...Board of Education decision, which desegregated schools in 1954. Cooler heads noted that in immediate, practical terms the ruling will have nothing like the impact of Brown, which fundamentally changed how American families live and learn. Only 13 states still have sodomy laws on their books, and they are seldom enforced...
...their recent successes, Western Union execs seldom forget the firm's Telex debacle, and some remember a much earlier--and bigger--mistake. In 1876 Western Union had the option to buy Alexander Graham Bell's new telephone but dismissed it in an internal memo as a device that "is inherently of no value to us." Bell sold the rights to what is now AT&T. First Data's pending purchase of ATM powerhouse Concord EFS shows that it is determined that Western Union won't get left behind this time. --With reporting by Deborah Edler Brown/Los Angeles, Paul Cuadros/Durham, Cheryl...
...matter how imperiled a Karachiite might feel, calling the cops is seldom an option. Too often, the lawmen are part of the problem. "You have to realize," says a land developer, "that police stations have no money, not even to change a light bulb or put gas in their cars." As a result, he says, police stations become "revenue-generating centers" and catching thieves and murderers is a secondary occupation. Police earn money by shaking down prostitution and gambling rings, and they will often demand a bribe even to register a complaint for burglary. A constable's monthly wage...