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...explicit opposition, the date the law goes into effect appears all that is uncertain about the proposal. That is unfortunate, because boosting the drinking age by one year would be not only unfair but ineffective in its ostensible purpose--preventing traffic deaths. It would simply be a gratuitous slap at the state's young adults to score political points with their elders...
...Ritter, a Roman Catholic priest, runs a shelter for teen-age runaways and castoffs in the neon squalor of Manhattan's Times Square. "The girls who walk in off the streets with babies abuse them," Father Ritter says. "If a two-week-old baby is crying, the mother will slap the baby. We try to teach her not to do that...
...easy for McCloy to argue that we should forgive and forget--when he himself wasn't the victim. The internment was such a gross violation of basic human rights a raping of human dignity, that this sorry event should never be forgotten. The honoring of this man is a slap in the face of all Japanese-Americans, an insult to their very identities, telling that even after they've been through, that they still can't get justice...
...discovery" change "yes" to "perhaps" or "no" to "yes," it appears that being on the winning side is more important than intellectual probity. Responsible historians should keep their lips sealed until they have researched the subject properly. The wobbling actions of these experts have dealt historiography a slap...
Reagan said he supported the findings, but interpreted them as a mandate to dismantle the Department of Education. Calling Reagan's reaction "a slap in the face," Mondale criticized Reagan as an "enemy of excellence...