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BOSTON--Governor William F. Weld '66 and the business community are fighting the perception that a tax break for Massachusetts businesses is a sop to large companies...
Smoking is not a right. If the founders of this nation had guaranteed an absolute right to smoke, they would have meant it as the same shameless sop to tobacco producers that similar proposals represent today. If people want to make the libertarian argument that consuming cigarettes wherever, whenever and however they please is a form of self-expression essential to their personhood, then it's time for them to get a new personhood. Anyone so addicted to nicotine that he or she can't stand to do without for the length of time it takes them to walk...
...television showed the younger Kim seated at a dais with other dignitaries as a military band played a patriotic song. "The revolutionary cause pioneered by President Kim Il Sung is now being successfully carried forward under the wise guidance of the great leader, Comrade Kim Jong Il," Yang Hyong Sop, North Korea's parliament speaker, said during the service. The uncharismatic and inarticulate Kim Jong Il's role had been unclear since the demise of his forceful father -- the only leader North Korea had ever known...
...will claim small successes over along period of time, to give our movement momentum and sustained zeal. Things might not happen right away, but maybe when you're far off in your welldeserved retirement, your successors will get tired of us and throw us a sop. That would be nice. Did we mention that we're going to poster at Commencement, too? Maybe we can get balloons with House shields on them and scare Vaclev Havel away. The pink balloons really seemed to disconcert Colin Powell...
...that encourages homosexuals to publicly declare their sexual orientation. He insisted he has lived a celibate life, as Christian teaching requires of the unmarried, and declined to label himself as either heterosexual or homosexual. Ironically,TIME religion writer Richard Ostlingreports, the promotion is no gay lib step, but a sop to traditionalists: Hope is an "Anglo-Catholic" who opposed a historic bill that allows women priests...