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First, the article's title is fallacious. None of the outstanding legislation, McCain-Feingold, Shays-Meehan or otherwise, puts a "cap" on campaign finance. For independently wealthy candidates or prodigal fundraisers with name-recognition, the sky will remain the limit. If all legislation does is limit contributions and make it difficult for less wealthy and less well-known individuals to raise funds, are we setting ourselves up for a plutocracy or, even worse to some, perpetual incumbency...
...only way we as a society can value thelife of a victim...is to say 'you cannot liveunder the same sky that we live under,'" Slavittsaid
...only way we as a society can value the life of a victim...is to say 'you cannot live under the same sky that we live under,'" Slavitt said...
...aunt Effie's nearby farm. He set up the missile in a field, then summoned an assistant, who lit its fuse with a blowtorch attached to a long stick. For an instant the rocket did nothing at all, then suddenly it leaped from the ground and screamed into the sky at 60 m.p.h. Climbing to an altitude of 41 ft., it arced over, plummeted earthward and slammed into a frozen cabbage patch 184 ft. away. The entire flight lasted just 2 1/2 sec.--but that was 2 1/2 sec. longer than any liquid-fueled rocket had ever managed...
...began: the Big Bang. At the beginning, it is said, there was literally nothing ("the void" of Genesis), not even space. Then there came into being a tiny speck of superheated space that contained enough energy to create all the stars and galaxies that fill the sky-with enough left over to drive the expansion of the universe ever since...