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Weicker, chairman of the subcommittee that appropriates education funds, criticized another newly appointed Bennett aide, Lawrence Uzzell, who wants to abolish the department's National Institute of Education, which conducts and funds research. Arguing that Gardner and Uzzell held views contrary to the department's purpose, the Senator suggested that no money be approved for their salaries. Bennett at first contended that Gardner's views were her personal religious beliefs and denied that either her or Uzzell's opinions on these matters would affect their official roles. But after two days of increasing public outcry, Bennett accepted the resignations...
...same activists who helped introduce the world to dolphin-safe tuna are about to take consumers on a similarly gruesome guilt trip. In an effort to abolish Canada's government-sanctioned seal hunts, in which pups as young as 12 days are fair game to get clubbed to death, the Humane Society of the United States and other animal-rights groups will launch a campaign this week to pressure Americans to boycott all seafood from our neighbor to the north. With a kickoff scheduled for March 29, the official starting date of Canada's seal hunt, the Humane Society...
...government is in curbing the excesses of the economic boom. According to recent reports by China's official news agency, NPC delegates will spend the week discussing topics like poverty alleviation, food safety and better conditions for workers. And last Saturday, Premier Wen Jiabao announced that the country would abolish taxes on farmers next year, two years ahead of schedule. "The Communist Party wants to maintain its monopoly on power," says Joseph Cheng, a political scientist at City University of Hong Kong, "But it is sophisticated and understands that it needs to address social grievances by making the cadres more...
...road towards moral progress—the road that the civilized world has been traveling for centuries. But this is not enough. The state-sponsored murder of the irresponsible is execrable, but the state-sponsored murder of calculating adults isn’t saintly, either. America must move to abolish the death penalty...
...agnostic, not cheerleaders, about the faith-based project of European integration," says John Hulsman, a neoconservative analyst for the Heritage Foundation in Washington. But that's a stingy view of what the E.U.'s projection of soft power has achieved. The goal of E.U. membership has compelled Turkey to abolish the death penalty, rein in its military and grant cultural rights to the Kurds. That same prospect has moved Croatia to give up eight war-crimes suspects, although failure to deliver another key suspect, General Ante Gotovina, will likely lead to postponement of E.U. talks. Even Serbia recently turned over...