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...their wives on TV and the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives don't speak for months at a time, the ringing proclamation of "Oyez, oyez, oyez" was exhilarating, a signal that the highest court in the land was about to turn its attention to our thorniest crisis...
...question of how to unseat tyrants gets to the heart of one of the thorniest foreign policy questions: How do you deal with states that refuse to play by the rules that govern everyone else? Inside the State Department, a dedicated group of "democracy first" proponents argue that the lesson of Serbia is clear: encourage democracy, and you grease the bad guy's fall. Serbia's transformation is encouraging. And though one election does not a democracy make, last week's moving events will provide a powerful argument for those like Madeleine Albright and others in the Clinton Administration...
...Gore and George W. Bush are having a full-throated debate on one of America's thorniest issues: Social Security. And by going where only bipartisan panels have dared to go before, they're threatening to make this presidential race interesting - in May, no less. Here's what these two propose to do about FDR's social safety net, which meanwhile continues to slouch toward insolvency (expected to occur in 25 years or so), and what you need to know before your grandmother calls...
Currently, Knafel is perhaps the thorniest example of town-gown relations. Even the conflicting interpretations of it show town-gown strife: while Harvard feels it has consistently handled Knafel worries well, residents have charged otherwise...
...docket, and may be unwilling to take on another - the Justices are expected to rule by next summer whether religious schools in Louisiana can receive federal funding for computers and educational materials. That case, notes Cohen, will be closely watched: "Separation of church and state is one of the thorniest issues facing this court," he says, and to date, the Justices have given some indication that they may not agree with the precedents of the 1960s and '70s - most of which dictated a very clear-cut division between the two entities...