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In a Slate "" last year, Crook claimed that we were contending that the value of a company is the present value of its stream of future earnings and that such a contention was false.
A related essay contending that Americans have run out of tolerance for the "barbaric era" of guns predicts that we could be "rid of the damned things" in five or 10 years.
On one significant issue, the line-item veto, they held firm on an old stance even though doing so meant handing a Democratic president a knife to gore Republican oxen (though they did postpone the day as long as possible and are now contending that Clinton's conception of it is too broad).
It now comes with two or three mini-essays a week by William Saletan on the order of his "Frame Game" feature: shrewd analysis of how an issue is being framed by the contending interests and who is winning the frame game.
Denby even goes against the conventional wisdom, contending that "the Gere-Roberts connection is still alive."