Word: citizens
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...That's pretty much what we know about John Walker. What we don't know, on the other hand, could fill volumes. Did he fire a weapon against the United States? Was he brainwashed by the Taliban? Does he still want to be an American citizen? Could he have issued a warning before the September 11th attacks...
...Bush. The administration's reactions to everything from the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty to the proposed International Criminal Court, the convention against landmines and the Kyoto Accords have painted Bush, in European eyes, as the bully on the block rather than a global citizen in good standing. And while his record on the death penalty may be in keeping with the American mainstream, it's beyond the pale in Europe...
...minutes to be told he needed to submit copies of his court dispositions. Out of a briefcase bursting with official documents, he produced the dispositions with a flourish--he had been to court three times to get them. "I got them," he said, with the satisfaction of a citizen who believes he has finally checkmated the state. Nonplussed, the woman behind the counter asked him for copies. He had only the originals. There was no copier he could use in the building, she reported. "You have to go outside for that...
...subject, as if you hadn't guessed, is best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose, author of, among other works, a trilogy on Nixon; Crazy Horse and Custer; The Wild Blue; and Citizen Soldiers--well, author of most of them. For the past couple of weeks, prompted by a piece in The Weekly Standard showing the similarities between The Wild Blue and a 1995 book by historian Thomas Childers, truth diggers have discovered that there are a number of plagiarized passages in these books. And there may be more to come. You can bet that right now folks are crawling through Ambrose...
...plight has become an international concern. He is a Hong Kong resident, not a mainland Chinese citizen, and Hong Kongers still enjoy religious freedom even though the territory reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. Last week U.S. President George W. Bush expressed concern about Lai's case, which has chilled relations that had turned almost chummy after the Sept. 11 attacks. Beijing responded by telling Washington to stop meddling in its judicial affairs. Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi claimed Lai's transgression wasn't just bringing in Bibles, but also passing them to a fast-growing evangelical Christian sect called...