ply statutes, to carry out the expression of the legislative will that is embodied in them, not to `improve' statutes by altering them."); see also Lyesl City of Riviera Beach, Fla., 166 F.3d 1332, 1351-52 (11th Cir. 1999) (Edmonson, J., dissenting) ("it is the qualities of the text when it was written — a