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...experience is that randomization has worked well, with the sole exception that we get these artificially engorged blocking groups," Shinagel said. "It's harder to integrate people into the House as a whole...
...Then there are the smaller targets. Varian sees a need for tax-code adjustments and a sweeping deregulation of the telecommunications industry far beyond the 1996 law. "If you go back to that law, really the Internet and the data networks are kind of a footnote in the whole thing," he says. The list goes on, from the mundanities of e-commerce ?- such as digital signatures or time-stamping ?- to the global question of formulating an international governing body for Internet issues. And the Fed won't be able to lay down on the job either, Varian insists. The easier...
...Capitol Hill, honesty isn?t always the best policy. The maverick GOPer needs eight more Republican senators to get his campaign-finance reform bill past Mitch McConnell?s filibuster and into legislative heaven. But his plan to win them could have some Democrats turning their backs on the whole deal. McCain and Democratic partner Russ Feingold said Wednesday that they were going to make things real simple for the Senate when their bill comes up for a vote next month: They?ll ask for a soft-money ban, nothing else, and take away wavering GOPers? excuses for holding out - notably...
...most troubling aspect of Bush's plan, however, is the notion that social services should be performed by religious charities rather than the agents of the public as a whole. Not all social services are the results of "compassion"; rather, they are part of the social compact that accompanies the modern economy. One of the unpleasant, but unavoidable, side effects of the economy is unemployment, and it is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. (For one thing, if unemployment were to fall below 4 percent tomorrow, the Federal Reserve would quickly jack up interest rates until a safe number of people...
...TIME business reporter Julie Rawe, the whole thing smacks of window dressing. "These things are superficial ? they?re supposed to make life easier for customers when their plane is late or their flight is canceled," she says. "But the big problem is that one in four planes is late. Fix that, and you don?t need the cosmetics." Fixing that, however, means both costly overhauls for the airlines and slow-in-arriving upgrades of outdated FAA equipment. "Until then," she adds, "the airlines can hand out all the lollipops they want. But people are still waiting. Planes are still overbooked...