To venture a guess, I'd say Bishop enjoys it for the same reason I do: Les Mis is really about the suffering of those in power and not, in the first instance, about redemption or love or the proletariat or the merits of state-supplied childcare or any of the other things people say it is about.
But it's pretty creepy to imagine a bunch of third graders debating the merits of potential state guns.
Before a judge could weigh in on the merits of the state's case, the city acted.
Whatever the public policy merits of the state and local tax deduction (and many tax experts are critical of it), it's a politically charged issue, since high-tax states tend to be heavily Democratic.
In due course Beatrice became one of the leading architects of the welfare state and a leading apologist for Soviet communism.The argument about the relative merits of the state and the market that preoccupied young Beatrice has been raging ever since.
The relative merits of steady state voltammetry at a mercury-plated copper RDE and linear sweep voltammetry at the SMDE are discussed, as is the mechanism of l-cysteine hydrochloride formation.
Sadly, the most important reform -- a state constitutional amendment replacing New York's system of sham elections with a system of merit selection of State Civil and Supreme Court judges, seems as elusive today as it did back in the days of Benjamin Cardozo's dad.
Dorothy Samuels gave a fine recitation of the ills attending the current methods of electing our judges, but it was not until the final paragraph that she proclaimed the ultimate remedy to be so-called merit selection of state Civil and Supreme Court judges, a process requiring a change to our state's Constitution.
Under such framework, the elegant merits of conventional linear state feedback control (favourable implementation simplicity and high reliability) and nonlinear robust control (global control consistency and considerable robustness) can be wisely incorporated.
The awkwardness of the dialogue reaches an apex of absurdity when Miral and her boyfriend, a militant named Hani Omar Metwallyy), debate the relative merits of a two-state solution between passionate kisses.
