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...Essentially that would transfer money from the government to oil companies, via consumers--not exactly a populist move. Bush could suffer if he fails to relate to the immediate needs of people like Walter Melendez, who pulls over to top off his tank whenever he sees his gas gauge drop below three-quarters of a tank. "I'm afraid it's going to be $4 next time," says Melendez, a computer technician in L.A., where radio waves are full of energy talk...
Students should ensure the council is a legitimate, representative body. That means students have to vote. All change cannot be pursued via building invasion; the council is democratically elected, meets regularly with administrators, and gets things done. The council stands as the most effective student group in influencing administration action. (This editorial page may run a close second.) Students, if you aren’t being heard at the council or in print, your concerns are going unheeded. Your vote and influence is needed to make the council an even stronger and more representative voice for the students...
...past supported the disparity in sentencing between crack and cocaine, which critics called racially motivated, because he believed crack has more potential to harm an entire community via violence. Now, however, he will accept the idea of making the sentences equal. Possibly by making sentences for user lighter...
...then there are drugs: south China's triads run a virtual drug superhighway from Southeast Asia's Golden Triangle via China to Hong Kong?and then to anywhere in the world. In mid-April, Vancouver customs officials found 42 kg of heroin with a street value of $64 million stuffed inside cans of pineapple chunks. (The contraband had been canned in Guangdong and shipped through Hong Kong.) Every weekend night, tens of thousands of Hong Kong nightclubbers rip through an ever-expanding number of Shenzhen dance halls where ecstasy, ketamine and ice are freely available and thrillingly cheap. E sells...
...them would, if they could, target the United States with weapons of mass destruction. But assume you're Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong Il, and you?ve managed to develop biological or nuclear weapons that you want to fire at the U.S. Why would you choose to do that via an ICBM? It's extremely expensive, hard to hide from the spying eyes of the U.S., which would probably bomb you to smithereens if it found out you were even building such a capability, and carries a return address that would see your whole country incinerated if you ever dared...