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...which requires certain offenders to check in with police every 90 days for the rest of their lives. The New Jersey proposal would require police to notify neighbors, schools, churches, youth groups and the media within 45 days of an ex- offender's moving into a neighborhood. Governor Christine Whitman, who wants community notification only when an inmate is "really at risk of committing these kinds of offenses again," argues that too broad a law risks deluging the police with paperwork. Whitman would prefer to follow the lead of Washington State, whose notification laws are touted as model legislation. Those...
...dark region of the New York shopper's soul which emerges at Christmas. His eye is merciless and this memoir reads like stand-up Dante. Sedaris has seen what most of us choose not to, and we should be grateful for his act of witness. He can say with Whitman, "I was the man, I suffered, I was there...
...three Republican governors have started the fight to make the GOP pro-choice, or at least netural. Govs. Christine Todd Whitman (R-N.J.), Pete Wilson (R-Cal.) and Massachusetts' own William F. Weld '66 have taken up the battle that Weld and Connecticut governor and former U.S. senator Lowell P. Weicker lost repeatedly. All three have aspirations to sit in big offices in the nation's capital, so consensus will eventually become very important to them. The question becomes whether the Republican Party will stand behind each or any of them...
Unfortunately, voter turnout is falling. Republicans, ever a minority, have less and less to fear from consensus. Perhaps Govs. Weld, Whitman and Wilson will wake up to the fact that shooting for consensus could just cause them to be ostracized in the party. Still, the GOP doesn't have many better--or at least relatively untainted--candidates for high office than those three...
...follow this, we need a two-semester class that moves to the modern period--something like a diluted English 10 combined with Government 1061. Doubtless, we'd have to include Dostoevsky, Balzac, Goethe and the Americans: Jefferson. Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and DuBois. Perhaps, selections from Smith and Freud...