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...They did. While the campaign itself launched a fusillade of negative attacks, a network of murky anti-McCain groups ran push polls spreading lies about McCain's record. They papered the state with leaflets claiming, among other things, that Cindy McCain was a drug addict and John had fathered a black child out of wedlock, complete with a family photograph. The dark-skinned girl in the photo was, in fact, the McCains' daughter Bridget, whom they adopted as an infant after Cindy met her on a charity mission at Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh. It was, even by G.O.P...
...aims to chip away at prejudice by making it harder for the private sector to discriminate on grounds of race in areas such as housing or employment. But some lawmakers and activists are incensed that, unlike previous anti-discrimination ordinances covering gender and disability, the law shields the Hong Kong bureaucracy from being held to the same standards as businesses. By lobbying for the exemption, "the government is using the law to undercut the very rights [we] seek to guarantee," said Hong Kong lawmaker Margaret Ng in a recent speech...
...Wong of Hong Kong Unison says that, while the new law is a step forward, the city still needs to follow through with enforcement and anti-discrimination education programs. "Hong Kong must prove that it's more than just an international money-making center," she says - and that begins with a greater appreciation for ethnic diversity. The city may imagine itself as Asia's cosmopolis, but it has yet to start acting like...
Israel and the U.S. want more than just an end to a state of war between Syria and Israel. They also wants Syria to stop supporting anti-Israeli militant groups in Palestine and Lebanon (Hamas and Hizballah, respectively.) In other words, they want Syria to break away from its strategic partnership with Iran, the senior member of what's sometimes referred to as the Rejectionist Crescent, the arc of governments and militias stretching from Tehran to Gaza that oppose American and Israeli dominance in the Middle East...
...psychiatry and a drug expert at the Yale University School of Medicine, since peer influence has a significant impact on the prevalence of drug use. In the Netherlands, for example, there is a large, vocal and homogeneous conservative population that is staunchly opposed to marijuana, says Schottenfeld. And anti-drug activists have made recent attempts to tighten the country's cannabis policies...