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...them. But no one has proposed him for President or Messiah; and he declares he would not apply for either job. Other listeners abhor the political product but enjoy the spiel. You can find diversion in any aspect of the Limbaugh carnival: the tight-wire walker or the Tilt-a-Whirl, the sideshow barker or the geek. You might even find it salutary to have your own exalted prejudices shaken by him. Last time we looked, Rush was still popular, and the Republic was still standing...
Many of the biggest changes in the next century, at least in the developed world, will be driven by the demographic tilt away from children and toward the elderly. A snapshot of a family gathering in 2050 will show lots of gray hair and not too many diapers. Even now, for the first time in history, the average American has more parents living than children. People age 65 and older, who constitute 11.3% of the U.S. population in 1980, will make up 22% of the country by 2050. Moreover, in the next three decades the number of Americans...
...A.B.A.'s tilt to the left on these issues is attributable partly to the increasing political clout of women. In the past 12 years, women have gone from 8% of the legal profession to 21%. Said the A.B.A.'s outgoing president, Talbot D'Alemberte: "The future of this profession lies largely with women, and women care passionately" about abortion. Predictably, the A.B.A.'s action displeased fellow lawyer Dan Quayle, who won a good deal of support last year for his more precisely targeted complaint about exploding legal costs. "The American Bar leadership," said the Vice President last week, "is just...
...Osprey, a craft combining the vertical talents of a helicopter and the horizontal speed of a normal airplane, would become "a stone in the air" if it lost power while making the change from one mode to the other. Tragically, that proved to be the case for the prototype tilt-rotor aircraft as it was landing at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia. Just as the Osprey was shifting from horizontal to vertical flight, with its propellers at a 60 degrees angle, it plunged into the Potomac River, killing all seven people on board...
Though all three co-authors of the majority decision were appointed either by Ronald Reagan (Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor) or by George Bush (David Souter), their decision proved that presidential efforts to give the high court a particular ideological tilt can be a very inexact science. In the past 12 years, Reagan and Bush sent five Justices to the Supreme Court, enough for a majority, and all were expected to vote against...