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The New York Times runs Floyd top-front, but leads instead with the House's passage last night of a campaign reform bill that would ban "soft money" and tightly regulate "issues" ads in the two months preceding an election, to prevent these two items from becoming vehicles for flouting contribution limits that are supposed to apply to individual candidates.
Calling this "a systematic flouting of state authority, a murderous form of gangsterism by which republicans seek to exert their illegal authority over 'their' areas," the paper said in an editorial: "If one could imagine such a process applied across the British Isles, that would be equivalent of nearly 20,000 people violently evicted from their homes.
Even Sinatra's Mob ties supposedly demonstrated his flouting of authority.
USA Today leads with the Dept. of Justice's attempt to have Microsoft held in contempt because the company is allegedly flouting the recently issued court order requiring it to market its Web browser Internet Explorer separately from its Windows 95 operating system.
Transportation engineers fearfully refer to gradually going faster and faster on the highway, flouting the speed limit, as "speed creep," and it is, well, accelerating.
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