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...Japan has long butted heads with the International Whaling Commission, claiming that the body's strict antiwhaling regulations are an affront to whale-loving Japanese culture?and taste buds. Last week, however, the country's Fisheries Agency proposed a compromise that the whale-eating lobby may be able to stomach: allow the meat of beached whales to be used for human consumption. The agency claims the policy change?carcasses of whales that flop ashore must be incinerated or buried under current law?is motivated primarily by a need to save money. In January 2002, for example, officials spent more than...
...estimate that North Korean might be able to build as many as six additional weapons with the plutonium from these fuel rods.) Whether Pyongyang’s claims are true is not clear, but what is certain is that the North Koreans could hardly have concocted a more brazen affront to the Bush Doctrine. Moreover, Pyongyang’s threats of nuclear misbehavior must be taken seriously given its penchant for brinksmanship, its tendency toward recklessness and its remarkably promiscuous proliferation record...
...attempt to stuff the nation's federal courts with highly ideological lawyers. Since most cases, while precedent-setting, never make it to the Supreme Court, they seem to have decided it's worth the fight even in the lower courts. "Never in recent memory has their been such an affront to the balance of the judiciary," said Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a Democratic member of the judiciary panel, where inter-party relations have sunk to a new low. "This is really an attempt to roll back any progress toward equality for all Americans...
Police are still investigating the incidents, but if all of them actually occurred, it’s a no-brainer what they represent: a giant affront to tolerance and freedom of expression...
...believes that this is an affront to the memories of the revolutionary heroes and founding fathers that fought for freedom from the tyrannous British. Therefore, students of Harvard, rise up! Awaken the rebellious spirit of revolution sleeping within your own breasts! Boycott your classes and celebrate Patriot’s Day with one of FM’s recommendations...