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...chemical or biological attack on major cities by terrorist groups is well documented; in 1995, a nerve gas attack on a Japanese subway left 12 commuters dead and could have threatened many more. Such attacks are warning signs that U.S. policy should concentrate less on the Cold War calculus of missiles and bombs and more on the threat of biological and chemical attacks on American cities...
...This is not seem to be an exciting message. It is not short and eye catching, and therefore attractive to the media. Yet this alternative view of voting recognizes the larger context of our campaigns and elections. Politicians function, not with the zero-sum calculus that determines their victory or loss, but rather on the balance of their own popularity. Politicians interpret their margin of victory as the length of the leash granted to their governance. (A fact that should make the next four years very amusing, if nothing else.) By voting, young people get an inch--no matter...
From the players persepective, while the top talent won't be enriching themselves like before, forcing the bottom teams to have a minimum salary will equalize wage distribution throughout the league. Teams won't be able to make the calculus before a season that since they can't win with a payroll of $45 million, they should just pare it down to $15 million and take their chances. It forces every team in the league to compete. And if your market is too small to meet this burden, then it is time to either fold up shop or move...
...centrists formed last year. As many as five are expected to join, bringing the coalition's size to perhaps 20 members. The four other newly elected Democratic Senators, including that lady named Clinton who gets so much attention, ran as more traditional liberals, and their part in the moderate calculus remains unclear. Aides to the New Democrat Senators have begun to prepare floor strategies for bills on trade and education. They are looking suspiciously like a leadership organization apart from the official one run by minority leader Tom Daschle. Graham is respectful of the leadership in interviews, but he also...
...only fair to ask why, if Gore were so vastly superior a candidate, the sniveling public-interest groups didn't do a better job of getting their constituents off the davenport to go vote for him. Election calculus is fuzzy math, to borrow a phrase, but it is possible, as Nader suggests, that fear of his threat to Gore actually got more people out to vote for the Vice President than otherwise would have. And Nader volunteer James Williamson, 49, of Cambridge, Mass., says he is offended by the suggestion that his vote for Nader should have been traded...