Word: civilities
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...advance of it through high school civics classes, as well as more consistent guidelines to help registrars do their jobs and ensure that students get to vote. Says Sujatha Jahagirdar, program director of the Student Public Interest Research Group's New Voters Project: "It's a civil rights issue...
...hardware came from the huge stockpiles of Soviet weapons left behind when the Soviet Union collapsed, and Dos Santos wanted it in order to crush the U.S.-backed Unita rebels during Angola's devastating civil war. (Dos Santos, who is believed to have made millions off the trades, won the war and is still in power.) The French businessman Pierre Falcone allegedly plied Angolan officials with tens of millions of dollars - some of it stuffed in suitcases - and deposited other sums of money in offshore accounts. Actor Nicolas Cage's character in the 2005 movie Lord of War was partly...
...goal is to “de-normalize” smoking—a creepy and Orwellian notion. The idea of using a ban to manipulate culture and social norms, even for what the city considers the public good, is dangerously close to social engineering, and should concern any civil libertarian. All cost-benefit justifications and philosophical objections aside, this measure is offensive because of the burden it would place on the city’s small businesses. If smoking is banned in these bars, they are likely to go out of business, or at least be forced to undergo...
...life signs after abortions, even if those children had no chance of survival. The Illinois State Medical Society, which represents the state's doctors, sided with Obama, opposing the package of bills because they "attempted to dictate the practice of medicine for neo-natal care and greatly expanded the civil liability for physicians...
...This approach would also be much more palatable to Afghans from the largely non-Pashtun north, who bitterly fought Taliban rule during the civil war and are more likely to launch another war than submit to a Taliban-led government. The Taliban today operate in virtually every Afghan province, and in several places they have been able to create a parallel system of government, but they do not have the support of a majority of Afghans. Most still vividly remember the deprivations of Taliban rule, and if given a choice, they would prefer their current situation to that of eight...