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Still, free traders like me--and like most of the business and government leaders who will gather in New York City at the end of the month for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum--shouldn't just trot out our beliefs as if they were some divine revelation. If we are honest, we need to confront two uncomfortable truths. The first is that globalization has losers as well as winners. When an economy first opens itself up to international competition through trade, those in protected industries and traditional occupations may indeed see declines in their income. Second, there...
...previous statements are any guide, Ashcroft will most likely trot out the same tired platitudes that the enormity of the crimes committed and the necessity of preventing future attacks justify any abridgement of constitutional rights. He has already argued that the regulations should not be that alarming because only a very small number of people will be affected. It should not be forgotten, however, that the people in custody have not necessarily been convicted of any crime. In many cases, they have not even been told the crime of which they are accused...
...there was a pervasive sense that things weren't as they had been. How could they be, when the President gave the Pentagon the authority to shoot down any hijacked civilian airliner? Pundits quickly learned to trot out the phrase "homeland security," with its faintly Orwellian overtones. And, as often happens in national emergencies, the desire of law enforcement for a free hand bumped into the rights and protections set down by men in wigs in the late 18th century...
...Though abstinence proponents like to take credit for the recent decline in teen pregnancy rates, there's nothing to say that chastity - rather than broader use of condoms - is responsible. They are also quick to trot out one part of a study of virginity pledges published last year by Peter Bearman of Columbia University and Hannah Brueckner, now of Yale University, that found students who took pledges delayed their first sexual encounter by an average of 18 months. Pro-abstinence folks conveniently neglect the portion of the study that followed the same students through their early sexual activities and found...
Like extraordinary fashion accessories, poodles with topiary cuts and tracts of shaved skin on legs and haunches trot alongside their owners. A spaniel in a shiny pink satin snood waits mournfully in a cage. The dog days of summer are in full swing in Britain, a time when canine events are staged almost nonstop throughout the country. At this year's East of England Championship Show, dogs with show names reminiscent of wartime coded messages - Mariglen Force the Pace with Becksett, Sequentia Reflection in Arabin - compete for titles and trophies. In between the primping and tense sessions with nervous owners...