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...State girl with a penchant for Bible studies and heavy makeup. I was an East Coast public school kid with secular parents and a socialist bent. Aside from my father, who registered with the G.O.P. every year “to vote against the crazies [read: the religious right],” I’d never met a real Republican before, not to mention a member of the religious right. These people existed for me mainly in legend, caricatured to the point that, had Barrett pasted a Swastika on her wall next to her Degas posters, I wouldn?...
...Iraqi government turned in order to broker an end to the rebellion in Najaf. Isn't that ironic, since it was Iran and not Iraq that sheltered al-Qaeda operatives? The so-called axis of evil will only be strengthened by the shortsighted actions of a U.S. President bent on making war. Bastian Birkenhaeger Friedrichsdorf, Germany...
Furthermore, the College is not actively denying any student access to cable television. Every house has at least one TV hooked up to cable, and there are enough south-facing rooms on campus that most students hell-bent on setting up a satellite dish will ultimately be able to do so. But cable television is not a right, at least not in the same sense a bed and a bathroom are. Despite the fact that all the other Ivy League universities (save Cornell) have wired their dorms for cable, Harvard students have no entitlement or reasonable expectation to the same...
...Iraqi government turned in order to broker an end to the rebellion in Najaf. Isn't that ironic, since it was Iran and not Iraq that sheltered al-Qaeda operatives? The so-called axis of evil will only be strengthened by the shortsighted actions of a U.S. President bent on making war. Bastian Birkenhaeger Friedrichsdorf, Germany...
...course that's good, says Bent, "but it's bad too, in that they're using other things instead, which presents new challenges to us." Reducing heroin deaths has been a big win. But heroin isn't the only problem, says Turning Point's Paul Dietze: "use of injected drugs is the issue." And given that those amphetamines are mostly produced within Australia's borders, the new front line will be harder to define...