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Sure, a political party doesn't haveto live up to its name. The German Democratic Republic, after all, was East Germany under the communists. In Mexico, the Institutional Reform Party (PRI) has been the protector of that nation's state of high corruption for the better part of a century. But it sure helps ? and this election year the Reform party has a chance to begin living up to its very purposeful name. There is perhaps an equal chance that the infant party will turn instead down the path that leads to the electoral deep dungeon where...
...word on third-party politics: It's possible. Voter turnout in the U.S. has sunk below 50 percent. Distaste for the current state of Washington politics is tangible; a generation of young voters is convinced ? perhaps rightly ? that they needn't worry about elections until they're rich enough to buy a politician of their own. Campaign-finance reform is being championed by both John McCain and Bill Bradley, and is actually starting to catch on as an issue, yet each finds the movement opposed to varying degrees by their major-party compatriots. The party in power never wants reform...
...that group? Savings bonds still offer a return that's competitive with things like bank CDs, money-market funds, Treasury bills and savings accounts. Better yet, the income is exempt from state and local taxes, and you have control over when you cash in savings bonds...
...disaster area, it usually means the disaster?s over. But North Carolina, which would hardly agree with the bird?s-eye verdict that Hurricane Floyd was less fierce than anticipated, still has an aftershock or two left to go. As the President got ready to tour the ravaged state Monday, local officials were bracing for four more inches rain from Tropical Storm Harvey, which was set to sweep through western Florida Monday night. Flash flood warnings are being issued ? and flooding is one thing North Carolina is becoming awfully familiar with these days. More overflow is expected from...
...supplies of Pitt and Edgecombe counties have been contaminated, and four more inches from Harvey isn?t likely to help. New Jersey is facing similar problems ? 1 million residents were told to boil their water this weekend after flooding overwhelmed a treatment plant ? but the problems of an agricultural state are special. At least 110,000 hogs and a million poultry lie rotting in fetid floodwaters, and the animals that survive ? military vehicles have been called in to help save livestock across the eastern part of the state ? are certainly not defecating where they ought. North Carolinians will certainly welcome...