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...morality, effectiveness, and scope of so-called charitable choice programs. The movement for gay marriage has inspired a counter-movement of sorts in the opposition, whose visible leadership at least has been drawn from the religious right. And all this is to say nothing of the Terry Schiavo circus that dominated the media earlier this year. Supposedly in defense of the right to life, the conservative dominated government, with the assistance of such high-profile religious “leaders” like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, mobilized on behalf of a woman who had been in a vegetative state...
...Many conservative Japanese say the recent protests were a deliberately orchestrated circus by the Chinese government to throw Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council into chaos. Japan deserves the seat, they say. The country is a prosperous and stable democracy and its economy is the second biggest in the world. It has a free and diverse press, has no nuclear weapons, and its military has not fought a single battle in almost 60 years. And it is the second largest contributor to the U.N., behind the U.S. Faced with such a strong argument...
...rights in the new Iraqi government while here at home Congress passes laws and approves budgets and judicial nominations with scant consideration of minority views. Klein advises Democrats not to be so obsessed with the legal system but instead to trust legislatures to solve thorny problems. After the congressional circus over Terri Schiavo, I am grateful to the Founding Fathers for having had the sense to create a judiciary whose members can focus on the Constitution, not the next election...
...releases them at the opening ceremonies gets to stay in practice, and that the athletes and the rest of us remain attentive. There were absentees at Baton Rouge among the top U.S. competitors, and crowds were lighter than festival boosters had expected. But among those who came to this circus of 30-odd summer sports and three winter skating events, the mood seemed light and untroubled. For athletes the meet was important but not career-breaking. For spectators both the nationalistic baying and the oppressive security of the Olympics were absent. A visitor could park and buy a ticket...
Lately, however, we have Maxim magazine, that venerable friend to all college students, devoting the entirety of its “Circus Maximus” spread to the prank Yale students pulled on our eighty-year-old alumni at Harvard-Yale...