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...have surveyed the potential 2008 field and found it wanting. Obama has been listening politely to the honchos, his aides say, and telling them his position hasn't changed. But what is his position? "I'm really not trying to be coy here," he said when asked by the Chicago Tribune last December. "I'm not going to speculate." This is not exactly General William Tecumseh Sherman saying "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." Close friends of Obama's say he really doesn't know yet what he's going...
...Social Organization of Sexuality,” a 1990 study, 3.9 percent of married or formerly married men in the U.S. had engaged in sexual activities with men in the previous five years. The lead author, Edward O. Laumann, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, estimated that two to four percent of ever-married American women had been in what are now called mixed-orientation marriages. While there are a myriad of complicated factors that could induce BGLT (bi-sexual, gay, lesbian and transgender) men and women to enter into heterosexual marriages, it is a tragedy when they...
...hard-left” academic (“Plagiarism Accusations Unfairly Characterized,” letter, May 5). I understand neither what this means nor its relevance: the basis of rational inquiry is the merit of an argument, not its provenance. NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN Chicago, Ill. May 8, 2006 The writer is a professor of political science at DePaul University...
President Bush, speaking in a packed Chicago convention center on Monday, called the formation of a new government in Iraq "a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror." The words had a familiar ring. Since 2003, the Bush Administration has described event after event in Iraq as milestones, turning points, moments that would dial back the chaos and bloodshed that has consumed the country. There was the capture of Saddam in December 2003; the handover of sovereignty to the Iraqis in June 2004; the writing of the Constitution in September; the successful referendum on the Constitution in October...
...Bush said Monday in Chicago that he understands the emotions about immigration, and that it is ?a tough issue for members to vote on.? He promised that if he disagrees with someone, he is ?not going to debase them in the public arena.? The question is how hard he will lean on them in private. And whether an illegal worker will leave the shadows, if they also have to leave the country...