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Last November Ohio passed one of the nation's most far-reaching gay-marriage bans. It prohibits not only gay marriage but also any relationship that "intends to approximate" marriage. Now that broad language is being used in an array of unlikely legal cases. Dozens of Ohio men charged with domestic abuse, for example, are prepared to argue in court that domestic-violence laws, which carry stiffer penalties than standard assault charges, no longer apply to them, since they are not married to the women they're accused of beating. Legal experts fear they may be right. "It's very...
...sermon, that called the containment of the Soviet Union's expansionist instincts "undoubtedly the greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced." What became known as "the Long Telegram" shook up the foreign policy establishment, as did a subsequent essay he wrote for Foreign Affairs magazine. His doctrine galvanized an array of initiatives to compete with the Soviets, among them the Marshall Plan, NATO, the World Bank and Radio Free Europe. It was an approach that policymakers today would do well to study as they face a similar global challenge...
Bush may have no choice in the end but to offer Pyongyang an array of carrots and sticks like the ones he has dangled at Tehran. But in the meantime, you can tell a lot about Bush's regard for Rice by where he is placing her friends--and where he has dispatched her likely rivals. The transfer of former Undersecretary of State John Bolton to the U.N. was shrewdly sold as a win for hard-liners--and there was indeed something in it for them. But it's increasingly clear that Bolton's departure is at least as much...
...follows up on Lemon Jelly’s singles collection lemonjelly.ky, and their first album, Lost Horizons, both of which share this album’s aesthetic of pleasant (if boring) psychedelic electronica, borrowing from a diverse array of samples, and ironically recreating these into new combinations and sounds...
Darkness. Silence. Suddenly a blinding array of bright blue lights blast the eager crowd into “Next Exit.” Smooth chords on the keyboard entice lead singer Paul Banks to inform the audience of their new fate: “We ain’t going to the town, we’re going to the city...