Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where the word sin has become quaint -- reserved for such offenses against hygiene as smoking and drinking (which alone merit "sin taxes") -- surrendering to the authorities for armed robbery and manslaughter is not an act of repentance but of personal growth. Explains Jane Alpert, another '60s radical who served time (for her part in a series of bombings that injured 21 people): "Ultimately, I spent many years in therapy, learning to understand, to tolerate and forgive both others and myself...
That's a hard one? Reflecting on the man who learned to like himself in prison, Bloom notes that in the mind of this ex-con, "the problem lay with his sense of self, not with any original sin or devils in him. We have here the peculiarly American way of digesting Continental despair. It is nihilism with a happy ending...
...hard drive. I can finally use System 7 without losing half my disk space. It took me less than five minutes to back up my entire internal drive onto the Tsunami and I still have more than a hundred megs left over. It almost seems like a sin to have so much space...
Some of the more intriguing objections: cigarette makers, targeted for a tax of around 75 cents a pack to help pay for the plan, have been howling "No fair." They insist that any "sin" taxes should fall on liquor as well as smokes. Some feminists, while enthusiastically pro-reform, gripe that Clinton's plan does not pay enough attention to women's special health problems. For example, they say, it would be too stingy in paying for mammograms...
...Sin" taxes on cigarettes and alcohol...