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...side effects, it is efficient to tax that good to compensate society for the side effects. But in the case of education, those effects are over-whelmingly positive, and thus society should subsidize the procurement of education rather than taxing it. Kassebaum's plan proposes the equivalent of a sin tax on a college education--could anything be more idiotic...
...point "It's not enough to tap someone on the shoulder anymore to get their attention. Now you have to hit them with a sledgehammer." Perhaps they have hit us with this visual sledgehammer so that we will reconsider what we regard as innocence and lack of sin, when we forgive greed, gluttony and the rest. Sommerset talks of apathy being regarded as a virtue in the city. The killer wants to awaken society from its apathy and so, maybe, do the film-makers. According to them, virtue may defeat sin but it does not defeat the anger that sin...
Bandit Queen was indeed banned. But Kapur believes that the censors, who demanded 25 significant cuts, have another agenda: "To them the film's most offensive aspect is its depiction of the caste system. To expose this hierarchy of inequality is the worst sin I've committed...
Then there is Peru, where the CIA is reportedly linked to the feared National Intelligence Service (SIN), which has been accused of killing 17 people in Lima's Barrios Altos in 1991 and causing the disappearance of nine university students and a professor in La Cantuta in 1993. SIN's purported mastermind, an attorney who is President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence adviser, has represented a number of major drug traffickers in court...
Catharsis has come to Union. Perhaps, as her lawyers contended, the jurors decided that Smith has suffered, and will continue to suffer, enough. Perhaps defense attorney David Bruck's final biblical admonishment--"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her"--echoed in their ears. Or perhaps they simply reached the cold understanding that killing Smith would not bring those two little boys back to life. Perhaps the jurors could not erase their memories of testimony about Smith as a child and as a sunny young mother on the streets of their small town...