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...ACLU, though, it's the chance to change that irksome perception, to show that the organization is as much a defender of religious speech as it is of the political kind. The ACLU of New Jersey filed a brief supporting the Turtons because "we have a dedication to ensuring the right to religious expression," said legal director Edward Barocas, who stressed, a little defensively, that his office has supported "numerous such cases in recent years...
...symbolize the existential distance between them, the ineluctable difference between man and woman. Or should one say "Man" and "Woman"? To which my reply is unprintable on a family dotcom. OK, their tale involves a few flashbacks (involving other actors playing younger versions of themselves), and a few brief intrusions on their privacy by small-parts actors, but there is no reason for these matters not to be handled in the time-honored...
...opposition party to overcome the American system’s weakness—that was, after all, the great achievement of Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America,” itself the high point of Republican party’s ideological fidelity. For a brief moment, the Tin Man had a heart, until it was lost in an avalanche of earmarks, paleo-conservatism, and sleaze. Perhaps a brief sojourn in the wilderness is what the Republicans need in order to rediscover their values—and the benefits of moderate but coherent opposition.Piotr C. Brzezinski...
...Some things get smaller, like the print in their summer reading books, and the time we get to have them to ourselves. As they get older, we have the share them more, both with their friends and with their need for solitude. They prize these brief but recurring alliances with their Summer Friends. They've never see each other in school clothes, don't know who threw up in math class, don't know who sits where in the cafeteria...
...found themselves cut off in isolated villages or gambled on staying in their homes rather than risking their lives by traveling the bomb-cratered and still dangerous roads. Cars, minibuses, even tractors towing trailers crammed with people waving white sheets surged along the border roads, taking advantage of the brief respite in the bombing and fighting. "This is our one opportunity. They gave us 24 hours and we are taking it," says Adnan Shabi from the small village of Teir Harfa. He says that his family were trapped in their home for 20 days while Israeli jets bombed and strafed...