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While the bill is a step in the right direction, it does not signal any kind of contrition on the part of pro-flag state legislators, nor does it promise any statewide reconciliation between the races. The removal of the Confederate flag could have been an event to bring South Carolina into the 19th century. A public acknowledgement of the wrongs the South had committed and their willingness to move past bigotry. Instead, this "great" "compromise" has merely reaffirmed the tenacity with which flag supporters cling to the memory of Old Dixie...
...those graduating seniors at the business school who contracted to receive half their salaries in options where the strike price was set a month ago will not be in the same state of panic as they were this past weekend. More likely, however, Friday's "bloodbath" was the first signal that the economic boom we've experienced will begin to reverse itself somewhat--and that we need to accept the fact that even the roads in cyberspace aren't paved with gold...
This is how Elian's fairy tale was supposed to go: the loving father, Juan Miguel, had never been able to signal his true hopes for his son because Fidel Castro had him in chains. But once he broke free and made it to America, once he stepped off the Learjet at Dulles at dawn with his new wife and baby at his side, he would fall to the ground, kiss the tarmac and ask for asylum. Or maybe it would happen Friday morning, safe in the halls of the Justice Department, when he would look Attorney General Janet Reno...
...short, it will be years before the era of genome-based medicine is in full swing. But last week's achievement is an unmistakable signal that...
...destroy or capture the Taiwanese garrison and create a precedent for U.S. acquiescence to Chinese coercion, thus weakening Taiwanese morale before the main invasion a few years hence. The U.S. Senate needs to pass the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act with a veto-proof majority. Such a clear signal might deter a war in the Taiwan Strait. JAY LOO Lansdale...