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...second lady sailed through without a thought. How unfair, unprogressive and - in the original sense of the word - un-American, was the way in which Rosa was penalized by our system for doing well. So here's the issue: We need a medical safety net that does not punish people for doing good things like earning their own living and taking care of their children...
...leaders do not aspire to build an empire. On their own turf, their goal is to preserve quality, reform slowly, and set an example others will want to follow. That 1,300 boys can swim in Eton's bounty when millions of British teenagers cannot is in some sense unfair. Nevertheless, Little says that his friends who are state-school headmasters "tend to be rather pleased that places like Eton exist. They're a point of reference for what you can do if you have the money; of something that can be moved toward." He has a point...
DIED. Neroli Fairhall, 61, champion archer and the first paraplegic athlete to compete in the Olympics; of undisclosed causes; in Christchurch, New Zealand. When rival archers at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles complained, wondering whether the New Zealand national champion gained an unfair advantage by sitting in her wheelchair, Fairhall deftly silenced them. "I don't know," she said. "I've never shot standing...
...guess Horowitz has a right to do whatever he likes with his land, and that it was unfair for 350 residents to control so much land in the middle of an urban area begging for jobs, and that - no matter how surreally beautiful the place was - the protestors weren't right. But I wish I lived in a world where they were...
Raut says he will "probably" vote for Bush anyway, but he and other kids spent hours battering the President--his proposal to grant legal status to some illegal immigrants (which they see as unfair to legal immigrants and dangerous at a time when terrorists may be sneaking across the borders), the increase in federal spending (which they fear will eventually lead to tax hikes) and his expansion of Medicare (which is an "entitlement program, something a conservative always opposes," as Buchanan, sister of former presidential candidate Patrick, told the conference). Like her brother, Buchanan criticized Republicans for not doing enough...