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Because of this, decisions which could be made quickly tend to take a long time, he said...
...homosexuality. Hence this summer's Defense of Marriage Act, which focused not on keeping heterosexuals married but on keeping homosexuals unmarried. This is a familiar pattern among conservatives. They are readier than liberals to dish out real moral sanction but tend to aim at the easy targets, the people they consider creatures from another planet: homosexuals, inner-city mothers, inner-city fathers. The linchpin of a robust moral system, in contrast, is a willingness to stigmatize people close to home, even your friends--even, in a certain theoretical sense, yourself...
Republican images of children tend to be either the unborn variety or little Sally and Tommy holding empty bankbooks in their hands. Bob Dole always cites children in the context that it isn't fair to pass our debts on to them. The Democratic imagery in Chicago veered between idealized Gerber babies (after his speech, President Clinton played peekaboo with brother Roger's cherubic toddler) and children besieged by a host of modern threats, from TV violence to tainted burgers to weary mothers holding down three jobs. Between the White House's proposals on teen smoking and Al Gore...
...were relatively few blacks present in an official capacity--just 52 of the 1,990 delegates--in part because the G.O.P. resists any change in its delegate-selection rules. For instance, rules awarding extra delegates to states with Republican governors end up favoring places like New Hampshire, where minorities tend to be a smaller share of the population. Some delegates tried again at this convention to push reform, but they got nowhere. Meanwhile, minority attendance at G.O.P. conventions is inflated by nonvoting "auxiliaries" affiliated with the R.N.C. Says a member of the National Black Republican Council, the auxiliary for African...
Most scientists lean heavily toward the less disturbing theory that life arises spontaneously through commonplace chemical reactions. New findings over the past decade tend to support that idea. "Today life occurs on Earth everywhere you look," says Washington University geochemist Everett Shock. "It's in the Antarctic ice sheet. It's in hot springs. It's buried deep in the sea floor. Why not just assume it started here...