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Perhaps the most profound change in American society over the past 40 years is how bad behavior is processed. When I grew up in the 1960s, bad boys and girls were usually held accountable for their misbehavior, punishment was almost a lock, and very few scandals resulted in profit participation. More

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As Americans, we would not knowingly let foreign terrorists take over the street corners in our neighborhoods and ignore that their business is enforcing their destructive will. We would demand that law enforcement uproot them from our doorsteps. More

To comment on a City Paper story or local issue, send us a typed letter 100 words or less (with zip code and a daytime phone number for verification) to: letters@nashvillecitypaper.com, or Editor, The City Paper, P.O. Box 158434, Nashville, TN 37215. Letters may be edited to fit. There is no guarantee letters received will be printed. More

Who, in January, thought it would take six months to pass a lottery bill? But here we are in May still waiting to play our first $2 lottery game at the local convenience store. More

Sandra Banning and her 8-year-old daughter are faithful members of Calvary Chapel, a church in Elk Grove, Calif. "In our home we are practicing Christians," the mother related last summer. More

This week the deadliest series of tornadoes to roll across the United States in 2003 wreaked havoc across three states, including Tennessee. More

Nine Democrats are running for president in 2004, and there had been no way to tell them apart. Until Congressman Dick Gephardt hit one out of the park. More