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...middle ground on abortion have been attracted to this notion of personal opposition but official toleration. Its roots go back to John F. Kennedy's famous speech to the Protestant ministers of Houston, in which Kennedy essentially offered voters a deal: If you won't allow my religion to affect the way you vote, I won't allow my religion to affect the way I govern. Giuliani and Romney both want that deal...
...that deal is no longer available. It is bizarre for a politician to promise not to let his most profound moral beliefs affect the way he governs. By contrast, Giuliani's point that Republicans will lose the election if they don't lighten up on abortion may well be true. Not only that: it may be the only assertion made by Giuliani or Romney on the subject of abortion in this campaign that the speaker really, in his heart, believes...
...According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders, restless leg syndrome, also known as Wittmaack-Ekbom's syndrome is a neurological disorder "characterized by unpleasant sensations in the legs and an uncontrollable urge to move when at rest in an effort to relieve these feelings." The condition may affect up to 10% of the U.S. population, according to the Restless Leg Syndrome Foundation. I can't say that I had any unpleasant sensations, I'm just a nervous foot-tapper, yet hearing the term on television, seeing the advertisement for treatment and searching on the term, I could be easily...
While much of this racism may not manifest itself in the most overt ways—explicit racial slurs and exclusion are rare—the very history of this country, and the ways in which minorities continue to be portrayed by the media, undoubtedly affect people’s subconsciously held ideas about race. It is extremely foolish for anyone to think that Harvard and its students are somehow above this tainted environment...
...qualifications and the experiences of the United States attorneys community, and he signed off on the names." McNulty may feel the need to address the issue again, to clear up the question of precisely why the prosecutors were dismissed. The darkest theories are that their removal was designed to affect the prosecution of specific cases - particularly ones that might have affected the outcomes of close electoral contests. McNulty would be in a position to testify as to how much political pressure, if any, the White House was putting...