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...this how the wandering Asians felt more than 10,000 years ago when they crossed to Alaska and marched southward through the Americas, going where no man had ever gone? On today's fully occupied planet, there are few places left where indigenous peoples do not hunt and trap or where loggers and mining companies have not sent in teams of surveyors. The great forests east of the Ndoki River may be the earth's last Eden...
...what he called "law learning." He also accepted demagoguery and deception as required for political success, and he served several terms in Congress during the Jackson Administration. "I was cunning as a little red fox," Crockett wrote in his autobiography, "and wouldn't risk my tail in a 'committal trap.' " Too much noncommitment from Perot, though, could render him implausible as a President...
CONRAD: Talking about a parliamentary solution is falling into a distinctly American trap -- that there is a magic formula and if we just find it we can solve this problem. Canada has a parliamentary system, and Canada has a much higher debt-to-GNP than we do. We need leadership with vision. That could create a bipartisan response...
...myself. I know that. The thing I will hate, hate -- not dislike, hate -- is the strange life we have created for our President where he is totally out of touch with reality, and where he is fed and briefed, and I will not get in that trap. I will break out of it. And everybody says security, security. You can't really be a good, effective $ leader if you are isolated, and we have totally isolated our President from reality...
...Jacobson resisted for 26 months, then finally ordered a magazine called Boys Who Love Boys. He was quickly hauled into court and convicted of possessing child pornography. Last week the | Supreme Court struck down the conviction, ruling 5 to 4 that "the government overstepped the line between setting a trap for the 'unwary innocent' and the 'unwary criminal.' " In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor warned that the ruling would hamper law-enforcement operations. The decision "introduces a new requirement that government sting operations have a reasonable suspicion of illegal activity before contacting a suspect...