Word: seriousness
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...constitutional questions raised by gun control are serious as well. In a way, the anti-gun movement mirrors the humanitarian movement in international politics. Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda have suggested that the West, the U.S. in particular, is heading toward a politics of human rights that supersedes the politics of established frontiers and, in some cases, laws. Substitute private property for frontiers and the Second Amendment for laws, and one begins to see that the politics of humanitarianism requires a trade-off involving the essential underpinnings of American life. To tell Americans what they can or cannot...
...global warming. Is it really happening? Undoubtedly, said Gore, his party's top contender, when TIME questioned the major candidates. He added, "There is overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is contributing to global warming." Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, another Democratic hopeful, acknowledged that it was a "serious threat." But the G.O.P. candidates sounded less certain. Texas Governor George W. Bush, his party's front runner, and Elizabeth Dole both agreed that the earth is getting warmer but professed to be agnostic about the cause, saying only that the question should be taken "seriously." Steve Forbes...
...confront the issue, and it is coming from an unexpected quarter: the business community. While commercial interests joined forces to block the Kyoto treaty in the Senate two years ago, the opposition has since splintered. Even such big oil companies as BP Amoco concede that global warming demands a serious response. Just two weeks ago, a subgroup of FORTUNE 500 companies known as the Business Roundtable called on government to encourage the development of advanced technologies to "address concerns about climate change." And when he visited Washington recently, Ford Motor chairman Bill Ford said, "We believe that for the public...
...yuckster Gargan serious enough to attract voters and good candidates? Or will the Reformers fail to get at least 5% of the vote, thus losing their $12.6 million in matching funds for 2004, and go the way of the Bull Moose Party, which evaporated in 1916? In a party where one vice chairman candidate served beer out of his hotel bathtub, where its only Governor plans to referee this month's WWF SummerSlam wrestling match, concerns about being serious may miss the point. "Jesse rejects that notion. He's always said, 'If it isn't fun, I quit,'" says Ventura...
This is what Cronin, appointed Hudson Riverkeeper in 1983, does for a living. He and his friend and chief prosecuting attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr.--two serious and good-humored men in their late 40s who look like kids, think like politicians and talk like poets--have formed a partnership based on vigilance and the law. With the help of students from the Environmental Litigation Clinic at the Pace University School of Law, Cronin and Kennedy have brought more than 150 legal actions against the river's polluters. Their most important case to date led to the 1997 watershed agreement...