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...third shooting in under a week, Robert Scott, 26, of Cambridge, was gunned down in broad daylight on the afternoon of June 8, while he waited at a bus stop on the corner of Mass. Ave. and Walden Street. According to police, Scott, the father of a five-year-old girl, was standing in front of the KFC and Taco Bell located near Porter Square when he was approached by a male assailant who allegedly produced a handgun and opened fire. Scott suffered four fatal shots to the torso...
Then he gently emphasized, in a homespun analogy that drew on his affection for craftsmen and construction, the importance of compromise: "When a broad table is to be made, and the edges of planks do not fit, the artist takes a little from both, and makes a good joint. In like manner here, both sides must part with some of their demands...
Lawrence v. Texas turns an issue that states have historically decided for themselves into a basic constitutional tenet. Even supporters expressed surprise at Justice Anthony Kennedy's language, given this court's allergy to broad social pronouncements. "The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives," Kennedy argued. "The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime." The court's majority based its landmark decision on a belief in "a realm of personal liberty which the government may not enter." To opponents, it meant that any law based mainly...
Every June is gay-pride month, but this one ended with a Supreme Court decision that--according to a suspiciously broad consensus among media elites--is supposed to make lesbians and gays prouder than ever. "A historic legal victory," declared the Los Angeles Times; a SWEEPING REVERSAL, gushed the New York Times in a banner headline, the kind the paper uses when...
...which has struck more than once with devastating effect. But the U.S. has sharply stepped up its intelligence operations in East Africa and has stationed 1,500 Marines in Djibouti as a rapid-reaction force. While East Africa is now a known theater of operations, West Africa offers a broad new range of opportunities - as Osama bin Laden pointed out in February, when in a taped message he singled out Nigeria as a country ripe for "liberation" by his followers. Nigeria could be fertile ground for al-Qaeda - half the population is Muslim, antagonistic to its own government over issues...