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...trial was a charade. His lawyer was over the hill and, literally, blind. The state's case rested on jailhouse snitches and a few hairs found at the scene that resembled his. Williamson was sent to death row, where he would scream that he was innocent. His mental problems deteriorated into full-blown insanity...
...difference that would make. Since Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is an unopposable force, the prime ministerial race was virtually uncontested. After perusing a menu of populist issues, Abe championed the Japanese abductees of North Korea very late in the day. The LDP has chosen to turn a blind eye to so many other problems that nobody could pretend that he and his fellow parliamentarians are not completely calculating in what causes they address. If that were not so, real issues like mercury poisoning, tainted blood supplies, asbestos-related illnesses and hundreds of other skeletons in the LDP cupboard...
...Bruce Sexton can help it. Sexton is 26, blind, and celebrating an unprecedented victory: A federal court decision last month ruled that he and the National Federation of the Blind could sue mega-retailer Target for not making its website accessible to the disabled. Though Sexton and the federation must still prove their case, the ruling gives them an excellent shot - and will almost certainly persuade companies nationwide to redesign their websites with the disabled in mind...
...Missing the Target The disabled have lots of buying power and rely heavily on computers and the Internet. So why does it take a court case to get Target to make its website accessible to the blind...
...that type of faith, doubt is not a threat. If we have never doubted, how can we say we have really believed? True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe...