Word: allowing
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...state takes that route, the lawyers who initiated last week's case will go back to the state supreme court to argue that domestic partnerships are a separate-but-equal injustice. However, if Vermont decides to allow full marriage rights, gay activists will have a platform from which to challenge the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law banning federal recognition of same-sex marriages...
...years--"I need to get on the StairMaster more" or "I'll be more patient with my kids"--just don't seem to pack enough vision and gravitas. But we must all fight this false sense of obligation to make grand, magnificently philosophical resolutions. As citizens, let's not allow our customarily banal and petty hopes for the ensuing year to be swept away by hyperbolic pomp...
...Although many anti-India Kashmiri fighters are trained in camps in Afghanistan and the Indian government supports the anti-Taliban opposition, the Afghans' conduct during the hijacking had earned praise from New Delhi. "The Taliban's refusal to allow a commando raid on the plane raises the question of whether they?re playing a double game," says Rahman. "After all, there's no reason for the hijackers to back down on their demands if there?s no fear of an imminent attack. Right now, the hijackers are fairly comfortable." That may change, of course, if the Taliban forces the plane...
...This lesson in do-it-yourself scripture writing could easily allow any of us to be a self-anointed Matthew, Mark, Luke or John." GEORGE A. THOMA SR. Lombard...
...school community is a little strange. For years they simply withdrew kids from the broader community often because they felt its schools had become antireligious. They fought bitter battles for the right to change old compulsory-education laws, which have now been rewritten or reinterpreted in every state to allow home schooling. Many Americans still have an image of home schoolers as conservative ideologues at best--and weird hermits at worst...