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From is old-fashioned text font to its black and white pictures and drawings, this 123-page platform presents itself as a continuation of Republican tradition. And the document itself, drafted by an overwhelmingly conservative wing of the GOP, holds no surprises. It toes the party line of the Republican right...
...people do their work -- and whether some of them still have work -- as any advance since the computer. The ultimate goal of speech-recognition researchers -- what they call their Holy Grail -- is an automatic dictation machine that can listen to normal conversational speech and turn it into perfectly typed text. Such a system could carry out much of the work currently done by millions of human typists, transcribers, reporters, secretaries and stenographers...
...speech, adding a few lines inviting Perot's followers into the Democratic fold. Late in the afternoon, when some aides complained that the speech was too long, the candidate defended it by claiming that it had fewer words than Michael Dukakis' 1988 oration. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor's text was shorter, and his lightning-fast diction made his delivery time shorter still. In his own laid-back drawl, Clinton took about 55 minutes to deliver his address. Recalling the fiasco of Clinton's interminable 1988 speech, his verbosity last week seemed on the verge of losing his audience...
...Thomas is taking cues from Scalia, it is not during long tete-a-tetes; associates say the two rarely talk. But they clearly share a judicial philosophy. Both take a narrow view of the Constitution. Rights not spelled out explicitly in the text, such as the right to abortion, are not recognized, and both men want to cut back the role of the federal judiciary, leaving more authority to the President, Congress and the state legislatures. Perhaps most significant, they don't approach precedent on tiptoe. Thomas and Scalia are happy to challenge -- with dynamite -- the decisions of earlier, more...
Reading Period:1. Two weeks to read a semester's worth of text and write three 30-page papers. 2. When the rest of the campus goes skiing...