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Reason February 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	San Francisco Unwired City supervisors proposed a $300,000 study to find out whether San Francisco should provide residents Internet, cable TV, and telephone services.
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez	Negative Action The central argument is one that critics of affirmative action have long made: Students admitted to a school under looser standards are, almost by definition, less likely to be prepared to succeed once admitted, undermining whatever benefit the preference was meant to confer.
Reason February 2005 Julian Sanchez	Data: Money Keeps Talking The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 was supposed to reduce the undemocratic, corrupting influence of money in politics. Did it work? Not quite.
Reason February 2005	Soundbite: Torture and Defeat An interview with Seymour Hersh on his new book, Chain of Command in which Hersh draws on his extensive contacts in the intelligence community to paint a disturbing picture of a war managed both immorally and ineptly.
Reason February 2005 Matt Welch	That Old, Tired Balancing Act Did the recent U.S. presidential election kill objective campaign journalism?
Reason February 2005 Cathy Young	The "Values" Panic It's quite true that neither the "red" nor the "blue" states have a monopoly on moral values. By the same token, neither side has a monopoly on moral bullying.
Reason February 2005 Nick Gillespie	Rant: Live Free and Die of Boredom Is "economic freedom" just another word for nothing left to do? Fewer tax and regulatory hassles and, most important, a tremendously lower cost of living are, in the end, probably not that important to American people.
Reason February 2005	Four More Years!?!?! Seven high hopes and seven big fears for Bush's second term.
Reason February 2005 Charles Oliver	Denny the Dullard In the autobiography Speaker: Lessons From Forty Years in Coaching and Politics, the book shows that from the time Hastert entered government, he has seen his job as cutting deals, passing bills, and getting re-elected.
Reason February 2005 Charles Paul Freund	Artifact: No Through Street Here is a photo of the new pedestrian plaza in front of the White House. The space used to be a typically busy downtown street, but now echos post 9/11 sentiments of fear.
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