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...verbal comic, Allen was the fastest gun in the business, and a true heir to Groucho Marx for his inventiveness with language, constantly pirouetting around the tired cliché or the pretentious phrase. Yet he had an infallible internal censor that kept his wisecracks from ever being cheap, or risqué, or mean. He kept a police whistle at his desk, which he'd blow whenever a line or bit of business crossed the line. He remained old-fashioned that way, as well as in his stubborn refusal, unlike Carson and almost everyone that followed, to do "savers" when...
...IMPACT: Abortion will most likely remain a constitutional right, and future legislative restrictions on abortion could be struck down. Affirmative action will probably remain legal, and the court will be more likely to recognize homosexual rights. Federal power may be allowed to broaden, permitting laws that tighten gun control, expand environmental protections and monitor food and drug production. HEALTH CARE GEORGE W. BUSH AL GORE...
...Peres-Arafat truce had been an unlikely end to a day of gun battles that claimed the lives of six Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers. The escalation of the shooting war had prompted Barak to prepare new harsh counter-measures Wednesday, but those were suspended after the latest truce agreement...
...With the Libertarians, it's the philosophy that counts. Small government. Really small government. Microscopic government. No income taxes, no war on drugs, no gun control, no public schools. Thomas "The government that governs best governs least" Jefferson to the extreme. A "constitutional" government, which means turning the clock back 200 years on Washington and letting the free market do the rest...
...MCAS results are due to be released Nov. 15. When they are, absent a miracle, they will confirm what people should have known all along: Education is improved by encouraging, motivating and supporting teachers and students, not by putting a gun to their heads...