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...recidivism? An oft-voiced critique of the new law, as New York Times writer Monte Williams expressed on Saturday, Feb. 24, is that it is "drawn so broadly that it includes people who do not appear to threaten public safety...effectively painting all sex offenders with the same brush." The result of this flattening of serious distinctions between sex crimes is that sex between a fifteen year-old and her nineteen year-old boyfriend, otherwise known as statutory rape, is held under similarly close scrutiny as the violent rape of a young girl--a ridiculous state of affairs...
...shrieks-with-chic Barneys boutique. His epiphany was outside the store, not inside. Instead of Bentley Turbos, Mercedes S-class sedans and the usual Porsches and Lamborghinis, so boring, there was a Lost Safari of Land Rovers, Ford Explorers, Grand Cherokees and GMC Suburbans, all tricked out with steel brush guards, roof racks, off-roading spare-wheel mounts, and black-leather car bras to ward off gravel and grasshoppers on the Paris-Dakar run. Cedergren flashed his perception to his clients: "Cars are now history. The future belongs to trucks...
...images of happy families, Toshi notes, Americans "offer up their unhappy childhoods like movie plots, or like gifts." All this is set against the backdrop of the Crown Prince's dating Brooke Shields, protesting farmers dumping foreign rice, and "laid-off Toyota workers burn[ing] AMERICA=AIDS into the brush on the southern slope of Mount Fuji." While cultures fight, their products flirt...
...rebellion very nearly brought him down. In 1990 Gingrich held on to his seat by fewer than 1,000 votes out of 156,000 cast, after his opponent charged that he was more interested in playing God than in seeing to the care and feeding of his constituents. That brush with political death, it turns out, has produced an even more harrowing one. Some of the charges that are now ruining his holiday stem from that tight race. GOPAC was permitted by law to help only candidates for state and local offices, but documents filed by the Federal Election Commission...
...need for opportunity. But since that time, he has shown little of that large-heartedness. He seems like such a contradiction, because he obviously has big ideas. Yet he has fallen prey many times to petty mishaps that seem to emanate from part of his personality. You cannot brush off such incidents as just tiny mistakes...