Degrees of assessment
LAST WEEK'S column on 'Two Degrees of Law' prompted no small number of responses to me, with some persons pointing out the relevance of the discussion to themselves...

The Moon and Mars: another false dawn?
WHEN PRESIDENT John F. Kennedy promised in 1961 to send Americans to the Moon before the end of the decade, he meant it - and it happened only eight years later. - Gwynne Dyer

A hopeless search
"IT'S THE economy, stupid." So went the watchwords for Bill Clinton's successful 1992 campaign against George Bush senior. People vote on the status of their pocketbooks, not on foreign policy, the thinking goes... - Dan Rather