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...takes care of the billing. "It's ludicrous that we're in the 21st century, and you still have people jumping over fences to read meters," says Skilling, pointing out that the technology exists to offer real-time pricing for gas and electricity. In deregulated markets, TNPC will allow consumers to switch power companies as easily as they do phone companies...
GORE 70 --To support Israel --To open up to the Cuban people --To support DNA testing in trials --To allow partial-birth abortions only to save the mother's life --To not attack Bush personally --To make Social Security solvent until 2054 --To cut the crime rate for the next 10 years --To wipe out all special-interest money --To have universal health coverage for children by 2004 --To keep the military the best in the world --To end child labor and protect workers --To not raise the retirement...
...case against Lee isn't dead yet. Government witnesses have testified about Lee's "pattern of deceptive behavior," and there is still the very troubling matter of those missing tapes. But the cracks in this case have been wide enough to allow critics to call it racist and Lee a scapegoat, and to provoke nostalgia for the old days, when foreign enemies were foreign enemies and accused spies got nailed to the wall...
David Gottesman lives in Beachwood, Ohio, a town with a Jewish majority. This demographic fact is largely the result of a 1952 court ruling that ordered Beachwood's leaders to allow the building of a Reform temple. So naturally Gottesman assumed there would be little objection to a plan in 1996 to open two more synagogues, one for his own brand of Orthodox Judaism and another for a Hasidic group. He was mistaken. A majority of Beachwood's Jews, mostly Reform and Conservative, have fought his cause at town meetings, at the polls and in court with an obstinacy outstripping...
...instinct to attack has been on display this summer against Bush. First came Gore's response to Bush's plan to allow people to invest some Social Security money in the stock market. Bush's idea was appealing to many Americans, and some Democrats, including Lieberman, have been willing to consider the idea. But Gore trashed its trillion-dollar costs and came up with his own idea for tax-free investment accounts in addition to Social Security (that lets him call his plan "Social Security Plus" and Bush's "Social Security Minus"). Next came Gore's mild distortion of Texas...