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Tort reform seemed inevitable, but after six weeks of negotiations in the spring of 1995, the package stalled over the issue of capping the punitive damages that juries use to punish defendants. Bush and the Republicans wanted a cap of $100,000; Bullock and the Democrats wanted it set at...
Bush's environmental record has Al Gore licking his chops. Texas leads the country in a frightening array of toxin- and carcinogen-release statistics, and last year Houston passed Los Angeles for the dubious distinction of America's smoggiest city. Though some emission levels have declined in recent years, four...
When I asked whether, if he became President, he would consider offering either Steve Forbes or McCain a Cabinet post, Bush ruminated about how the desire for power--the power to do good, as well as power for its own sake--is a salve that can heal most political wounds...
The Irish Republic's government and traditional republican supporters in the U.S. are twisting arms too, and it may be working. The same day Mandelson announced the suspension, the body in charge of decommissioning reported "valuable progress" from the I.R.A.'s representative, who declared that the group will now "consider...
"I consider that belief to be unworthy of both students and faculty," Kirshner says.