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...this rule is about more than keeping pregnant women out of the line of fire. It's about enforcing archaic rules in a way that discriminates against women - in more ways than...
...Bush officially announced the U.S. withdrawal from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. The timing left some on Capitol Hill grumbling. Why abandon the 30-year-old pact now? The administration insists the logic is simple: The ABM treaty no longer fits into a viable foreign policy - it represents an archaic Cold War standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Current relations between the U.S. and Russia are, in the administration?s words, characterized by a "hope of greater prosperity and peace." The President said as much at a formal declaration in the Rose Garden: "I have concluded...
...House of Lords is feeling an intense squeeze from Blair’s influence, and surprisingly, the people and the press are coming to the aid of this archaic and arcane institution. Britain’s second chamber of Parliament has, under Blair’s tenure, undergone great changes, not that they did not see it coming: Blair campaigned back in 1997 on making the House of Lords more representative. To that end, in 1999 this sleepy and purely advisory body had all but 92 of its 750 hereditary members dismissed from service, ending the automatic right of hereditary...
...machismo was a fault and the military an archaic and expensive nuisance. The N.P. admires strong men and manly virtues--courage and self-sacrifice. In the Vietnam years, the massive "daisy-cutter" bomb represented everything brutal and inhumane about the American war; in Afghanistan last week, it seemed just another useful weapon...
...keeping with a pattern. Whenever relations have become too cozy in the past, Iran's hard-liners step up their anti-American rhetoric. But this time many high-ranking officials, including some former hostage takers, refused to endorse the embassy exhibit. And even amid the archaic, almost risible propaganda, there was a clear dictate freshly painted on a mural in the exhibit: "Iran's policy is that relations and negotiations with America are at the Supreme Leader's discretion...