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...expected -- will not undo decades of corruption or transform the political landscape overnight, but supporters of reform argue that the referendum is the best way to begin the difficult passage toward a more responsive -- and responsible -- political order. "If the yes vote wins, it will not mean a magic wand is waved against all the problems of Italy," said Mario Segni, leader of the reformers. "But at least we can have strong institutions. The old parties will disappear. For the first time, alternation in government will be possible...
...council members said they did not discuss in detail with Green several other issues mentioned in their February proposal, including the development of a gay and lesbian studies program in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Rebecca M. Wand contributed to reporting this story...
...logical consequence, anything displeasing to think that Blacks were not responsible to think that Blacks were not responsible for Western" or the beginning of Western history in such a way that the displeasure is removed. Truth is now reduced entirely to the subjective--a magic wand with which we manage to delude ourselves that the outer world conforms to our desires rather than a rigid measure by which we attempt to deduce the nature of reality regardless of our personal inclinations. Although, of course, the nature of human experience is such that objective truth will always remain elusive...
...FORCE ONE NOW, BUT AIR FORCE 28000. MISSION 1443. Presidential authority stripped, code changed for the last flight. Yet the same 747 jumbo jet that had taken George Bush more than half a million miles around the globe. The power wand of the Oval Office. So much the same but everything different...
SUBTRACT DRUGS FROM THE bloody San Diego gang scene that reporter Bob Sipchen describes -- go ahead, wave a wand -- and the festering urban mess still would stink of hopelessness. Sipchen, who writes for the Los Angeles Times, uses an African proverb for an epigraph: "It takes a whole village to raise a child." If there is no village of strong adults, only warring teenage street gangs controlling a few blocks of city turf, then the gangs may do the child rearing. Kevin Glass was 10, a clever, skinny black kid already moving from mischief to larceny, when he began...