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...impossible to predict. Both Nader and Buchanan speak from within consistent and coherent worldviews. And each runs for the presidency with, so to speak, the integrity of hopelessness. Fighting a lost cause sharpens one's opinions. Gore and Bush are inevitably corrupted by their hopes for the office; sheer expectation deadens their language...
...could very well be enough to carry Bush through to November with a minimum of angst over this issue. Although at least one scheduled lethal injection - involving one suspect's deathbed insistence that his alleged accomplice is innocent - has the potential to incite Gary Graham-level protest, and the sheer frequency of executions could be exhausting for Bush's handlers, most people expect Bush to simply stick to his guns and ride out the storm. Of course, the public, as Bush likes to remind us, is on the governor's side: While fewer Americans support the death penalty today than...
...with so many other things these days, though, classical theory is being rewritten by the sheer strength and dynamism of the American economy. Not only is the U.S. growing faster than any other major nation, but it is also enjoying a surge in productivity that promises to keep growth going well into the future, if a bit less exuberantly than today. And, for all Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's fears of renewed inflation, price and wage increases have not eaten up any significant part of the gains...
...then we must presumably work out a calculus of penalties for crimes committed for reasons of jealousy, or of lust, or of compassion (the Kevorkian assist, e.g.). I would like to see an entire new branch of law developed to deal out sentences for crimes committed for reasons of sheer stupidity...
...before connecting an online presence with a human being. "These prosecutors have identified an incredibly widespread crime syndicate, reaching from New York to Dallas to Salt Lake City," says TIME senior New York correspondent William Dowell. "And it looks like it's been simmering for quite a while." The sheer magnitude of the coalition was just one of the challenges facing law enforcement officers; various state attorneys general were stymied, says Dowell, trying to negotiate the perpetually hazy realm of online jurisdiction...