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...teachings. Canon law states that people who participate in abortions - would-be mothers, doctors, nurses - are automatically excommunicated. There has been an ongoing debate about whether this also applies to politicians who vote for abortion legislation. But the Pope's remarks seemed to be a moment of personal candor, leaving no doctrinal wiggle room for pro-choice Catholic politicians. It remains to be seen how it plays out with individual priests and the political leaders in their diocese - and whether it will become an issue in the 2008 Presidential campaign for candidates such as Rudy Giuliani...
...left and the right, the only way to make a truly strong candidate is to take a composite of the front runners: Edwards' health-care plan plus Clinton's toughness plus Obama's charisma. Or Romney's social conservatism plus Giuliani's leadership plus McCain's reputation for candor. The Democrats can't seem to settle on a sweetheart, while on the right, "I'd like to be able to choose a little of each one," as a senior Republican lawmaker put it recently. If his best competitors are Frankenstein's monsters, why shouldn't a distant contender like Hagel...
...fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion has exposed how reality ambushes intention, leaving people at war with even themselves. U.S. leaders fight over how to write an ending. President George W. Bush calls for courage and resolve and dispatches 30,000 more troops; Democrats call for candor and realism and debate whether a withdrawal deadline of September 2008 is too late or too soon. Bush vows that as soon as things improve, we will leave; Democrats warn that unless things improve, we will leave. Will their impasse finally force Iraqi leaders to step up? Or just invite a war-weary...
...Libby case, his hand has been weakened. For example, in public testimony before Congress lately, intelligence officials have emphasized more ambiguities and uncertainties in their conclusions about threats overseas than was commonplace at the height of Cheney's power. Democratic Senators report that a refreshing new degree of candor has returned in classified sessions as well. "Cheney's influence on intelligence has declined markedly," said Democratic Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee...
That report is just one more example of Soviet Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, in the media. Over the past year the state-run press has been exploring the problems of Soviet society with unprecedented candor, discussing such once forbidden topics as drug abuse, prostitution and urban blight. In addition, newspapers and TV have covered the kinds of national catastrophes?an earthquake, an attempted airplane hijacking and the sinking of a Soviet submarine?that were once hushed...