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Moreover, the law does not only guide the behavior of citizens??it is also a reflection of societal values. Holding hate crimes to special standards makes an important statement against the gross intolerance that motivates these violent acts. It says that crimes driven by racism, religious bigotry, and now homophobia have no place in our society...
...roots of Reaganism run deep, and those against a government-sponsored plan shout loudest. People who do want to expand coverage and cut costs—and quite possibly truly want to help their fellow citizens??are still hesitant to support the expansion of Washington’s influence in the market. In many ways, the invisible hand is strangling the Democratic Party. A big part of the president’s speech aimed to convince insured Democrats with market-friendly perspectives that a government-run public option could work, while also convincing progressives that although the letter...
...insistence on taking on ambitious social projects in the present have made her the scandal du jour around many a wine cooler. Yet poll results suggest the tides are turning. Bruni’s insistence on maintaining her self-identity has grudgingly won over the nation’s citizens??90 percent now deem her “elegant and modern...
...credited with preventing Bork’s nomination. On the Senate floor, Kennedy furiously alleged that “Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens?? doors in midnight raids, and schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of Americans...
...Historical Study categories. Adam G. Beaver, the History department’s outgoing assistant director of undergraduate studies, says that he finds Gen Ed to be an “inferior, warmed-over version of the Core,” which—while seeking to produce global citizens??should teach students where they came from as well as where they are going. But Beaver adds that the department views submitting a variety of course proposals to the curriculum as the best way to ensure that students outside the concentration still appreciate history. Some professors have been less...