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...have the depth of last year, but our teamsmanship, our fight will pay dividends, " Locker said. "I just don't want us to threaten ourselves. I don't want to push the team too hard...
...welfare programs: they can now solicit government funds directly rather than set up charitable subsidiaries. Supporters say the spirituality and fellowship offered by churches, combined with their community ties, provide the best hope yet of permanently turning around the lives of the poor. But critics say the new programs threaten to tear down the wall between church and state, and may actually harm the churches that participate...
...function of government is to secure the liberty and property of the governed, a government that can't even implement the rule of law is hardly worthy of the name. So, at least, writes Stephen Holmes in his American Prospect article "What Russia Teaches Us Now: How Weak States Threaten Freedom." New Yorkers like their persons and property to be secure. You can't argue with that. I didn't like getting mugged at gunpoint either. But the flip side is that a lot of people still haven't got any property to secure...
...Washington's shadowy power brokers operate best in secret, JOE GAYLORD is losing his mystique. It was bad enough when Gaylord, eminence grise to NEWT GINGRICH, was blamed for isolating the House Speaker, antagonizing enough Republican brethren to threaten Newt's leadership post earlier this month. Now it turns out Gaylord took $7,500 a month from a Republican think tank so cash starved that HALEY BARBOUR had to obtain a $2.1 million loan guarantee from a Hong Kong businessman to make good on its debts. The National Policy Forum's payments of about $112,000 to Gaylord...
...training "J" after running down and almost bagging an alien offender. They're soon confronted with the mother of all diplomatic crises: when the big bad extraterrestrial Bug lands on Earth, assassinates a high-ranking alien and steals a galaxy (don't ask), the assassinated alien's compatriots threaten to destroy Earth if the galaxy isn't recovered...