Word: problem
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...might finally allow a cathartic resolution of the debilitating constitutional problem we have been suffering under for 40 years: arrogant, activist courts trampling the prerogatives of elected legislatures and elected governments in deciding how we are to live. Christmas creches snatched from public displays under the baroque, three-pronged "Lemon test"; Miranda rules plucked out of thin air; the right to abortion suddenly located in the "penumbra" of the Constitution...
Hypertechnical? The law's single technicality was that ballots be counted by 5 p.m., Nov. 14. This was hardly a law riddled with minutiae. It had a simple, clear standard. The court's real problem is not technicality but legality, what it disdainfully terms "sacred, unyielding adherence to statutory scripture." Courts, it seems, write scripture; legislatures write talking points...
...winner this time will run for re-election in 2004. Should the loser fear he won't be renominated for that race? George Bush is probably safe with the Republicans. Al Gore has the Hillary problem, which four years hence may be powerful...
...loses in 2000 must spend the next four years repairing his greatest weakness. The yammering classes have decided that Gore's problem is a weird, deficient personality, and Bush's is a dull, incurious brain. I have sometimes suspected the reverse: that Gore is a nicer guy than imagined but not as smart as he would like everyone to think; and that Bush is smarter, but a lot less nice, than he seems. The two men even out, in some irritating...
Sadly, the high-profile monkey problem may only be growing. Large numbers of baby magots were purchased by trendy Parisians just before the adult magot problems made headlines. If the monkey population explodes as feared--and fad-fatigued owners abandon their charges in greater numbers--men who plan to visit France's parks may want to don protective gear before they wander too far into the woods...