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...aside the ethics crises nipping at the heels of both the President and the Speaker of the House, plus the possibility of an imminent recession--each of which in its own right would be enough to shred this idyllic scenario. The division between a Democratic President and a Republican Congress has been, since the current party system began in the 1850s, the country's least productive political arrangement. Splits may work for champagne, or maybe bananas, but they often don't make for good government in Washington...
...promise was not enough to convince skeptics, even on traditionally Republican Wall Street. Says Stephen Roach, chief economist for Morgan Stanley: "There is not one shred of credible evidence on how Dole will pay for his plan. Fully 65% of the revenue breaks are to be financed by nothing more than wishful thinking. This is as vague as it gets...
...including milk, is about 35'. Yet shoppers who watch their families gobble up a $5 box of cereal in a couple of sittings still consider the cost to be considerable. Ann Rhodes, a mother with three children at home in Waterford Township, Michigan, says of her family, which can shred seven boxes of cereal weekly, "The 14-year-old will eat a whole box if you let him, and the 11-year-old isn't far behind. It has really gotten expensive. Cutting prices would get us to buy more...
...aware of Irving's reputation prompted widespread incredulity. A prolific writer with a knack for gaining access to original source material, Irving has also been for some 20 years a notorious and very public apologist for Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. He has said there is "not one shred of evidence" that 6 million Jews were murdered by the Germans during World War II. In Hitler's War (1977) he made the somewhat contradictory argument that if there was a Holocaust, Hitler knew nothing about...
...usually against children) is long and literally unbelievable. It comprises everything from bizarre rituals involving "magic rooms" and robots (R2D2 makes an appearance in one) to coprophagy and rape with sharp objects (in one case, a "sword in the rectum"). Fantastic physical traumas (e.g., the sword) yield not a shred of physical evidence. One child said her teacher had turned her into a mouse. For a myriad of such offenses, New Jersey preschool teacher Margaret Kelly Michaels was given 47 years. (Her conviction was overturned in 1993--after she had served five...