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...view that some moral decisions, like the choice to have a first-trimester abortion, should be left to the individual, not the cops. Ann Coulter, with her usual subtlety, simply calls her political opponents "godless," the title of her new book. And the largely nonreligious media have taken the bait. The "Christian" vote has become shorthand in journalism for the Republican base...
Harvard’s “alcohol czar,” Ryan M. Travia, is head of an initiative seeking to reduce binge drinking, so the bait used to lure students to his talk at Leverett House might have seemed surprising: booze. Travia, director of Harvard’s Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services, staged a question and answer session on drinking in the Leverett Senior Common Room last night, underlining his frank and pragmatic approach to undergraduate alcohol use. “We are not prohibitionist by any stretch of the imagination,” said...
...Security Council to bring Iran's nuclear program to heel, U.S. President George W. Bush is plainly eager to finesse the trade issue as best he can. Asked a leading question at a press conference about trade with China earlier this month, Bush not only didn't take the bait, but offered a crisply cogent description of the economic reality Hu faces every morning: "Listen," Bush said, "China's a country that has to create 25 million jobs a year just to stay even. Think about that." He left it to Commerce Secretary Gutierrez to play what one former...
...Google AdSense"--which generates increasingly specific ads as it monitors how a user clicks through a website. "When someone types in the words schools or Oprah, your education plan--targeted for moms--will be right there. You're still fishing, but at least you're fishing with the right bait." Candidates will also infiltrate every trusted message board and blog that they possibly can. "That's just a given," says Trippi...
...APPEALING BUT NOT ART HOUSE. HAVE YOU GIVEN UP ON ANOTHER OSCAR? [Laughs] It's not like you go out and try and drum those roles up. I'm interested in all kinds of roles. The Silence of the Lambs, for all intents and purposes, was not an Oscar-bait movie. I don't know, I just don't have rules for it. I think what interests me is being a part of the storytelling, not necessarily being the drummer with the solo...