Word: reforms
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...racially divisive subject. The NAACP and Urban League are firmly against the use of race-neutral percentages - NAACP head Kwesi Mfume recently called the policy "Jim Crow Jr." What's more, this is just the type of center-hugging policy that could drive right-leaning voters to the Reform party come election day. At the same time, it is a difficult policy for Democrats to attack since it's had mixed results and has been praised by some respected pillars of the liberal media (including a major feature article in the New York Times Magazine last May) and some high...
...intellectually dangerous, especially if one reads the book without an understanding of American history and a decent command of the history of western civilization. Allyn also tells us that St. Augustine's sexual repression is the cause of the Catholic Church's current birth control policy. Allyn attributes the reform movements in the 1830s and 1840s to a crusade against sexuality in society. Allyn claims the actual intention of the graham cracker was to "soak up men's sexual desires," giving an entirely different interpretation of smores. Shockingly, Allyn claims the only cause of abolition was a deep-seated fear...
...second important protection would reform the woefully inadequate and underfunded system of public defense for capital crimes. Because indigent defendants in many states are represented by court-appointed lawyers paid only a fraction of the normal rate for similar legal work, the system tends not to select those lawyers with the necessary experience and qualifications to try a complex criminal case, but those who are willing to work cheap. A state that is willing to pay any price to recruit talented and knowledgeable prosecutors but refuses to commit resources towards the defense does not have a justice system worthy...
McCain, Bradley and Keyes are gone and the Reform party may never show up. Now that it's clear that this year's presidential race has come down to two well-feted political aristocrats, the battle has switched from who can seem the most authentic to who will be the most effective. George W. Bush and Al Gore are wrangling for the centrist vote by trying to show that they can continue the nation's unprecedented economic growth while initiating a leave-nobody-behind era of federal spending. Bush made another appeal to the swing soccer-mom constituency Tuesday...
...Credibility" comes down to who can deliver the goods. Bush says that as chief executive of the nation's third most populous state, he is "a reformer with results." Gore boasts that his record on Capitol Hill and as second-in-command of an administration that has presided over a record economic boom makes him the man for the job. "It's natural for candidates to spar over their records," notes TIME political writer Eric Pooley. "But despite what Bush says about what he's done in Texas, Gore clearly has the more impressive record in government...