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...start with the descent of American politics into a corrupt bazaar of special interest groups vying for power. The first and most important obstacle to Congressional approval of gun control legislation is the three million-member National Rifle Association, which, in the case of the Brady Bill, was able to kill a bill that enjoyed 95 percent approval in public opinion polls...
...economic experts but with members of her own extended family. A Yale-educated economist helped reduce the government's monthly deficit from $30 million to $8 million between last April and last September, but resigned last October because of conflicts with Chamorro's family, setting the stage for the descent into free spending and renewed inflation...
Offensively, the Crimson did its job, scraping together one run each in the second, fourth, fifth and sixth innings. But then the sun started its descent...
...person of Irish descent, I find this slur offensive. And I think we all should. That's what AWARE Week was all about, wasn...
...alive and menacing in the Middle East. Some are content to leave it at that. The demonizing of Saddam has escalated along with the war and seems omnipresent in the West. Last week the op-ed page of the New York Times ran a David Levine drawing titled The Descent of Man. Running from left to right were representations of Clark Gable, a gorilla, a chimpanzee, a cobra and, finally, a diminutive, flyspeck Saddam standing waist-deep in an oil slick...