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In fact, the bill is a failure: The three-strikes law clogs the courts and fills prisons with older inmates unlikely to commit serious crimes again; cities will go broke paying for the "100,000 new cops" when federal seed money runs out; and the assault-weapons ban has too many loopholes.
Redstone has done an excellent job of managing Viacom in the past couple of years, selling off assets, paying down debt, and generally focusing the company on its core operations.
At the wedding of Courteney Cox and David Arquette--who'll be getting the requisite Gucci nipple rings to celebrate, according to the Star --the Globe says that "no one was paying more attention" than Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, because they are preparing to take the plunge themselves.
Right now, no one is paying the least little attention to military procurement--which is the way the military likes it.
Some inequality is inevitable, in other words, and more of it is a price worth paying for a prosperity that benefits all, to one degree or another.