Word: civilizations
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...interview in a previous Advocate, Bradley's archrival, Al Gore, declared only that he would seek "more compassion" in the current "don't ask, don't tell" policy. In addition, Bradley says that his presidency would push to include homosexuals as one of the minorities protected by the 1964 Civil Rights Act; Gore has proposed a more limited job-discrimination bill. Both Bradley and Gore say they oppose same-sex marriage but favor legal protections for "domestic partners...
...have reached another eleventh-hour compromise with the Kosovo Liberation Army, but the underlying tension between them over Kosovo?s future is far from resolved. KLA leaders signed an agreement Monday authorizing the disbanding of the guerrilla movement ?- or more correctly, its transformation into a 5,000-member civil defense-style Kosovo Protection Corps. NATO had envisaged the corps as a National Guard equivalent to respond to civilian emergencies, but the KLA viewed it as the nucleus of a national army for the independent Kosovo to which they remain committed. Although NATO has restricted the Kosovo Corps to only...
...some ways, the most interesting issues are those where [the]values that are core to our page come into conflict," he said, specifying civil liberties and the separation of church and state...
...bill gets its mid-October day of debate on the Senate floor. Bill Bradley could choose to lend some moral oomph from outside the ring. But the biggest noise could come from McConnell himself. The House victors are urging McCain & Co. to try an old-time tactic from the civil rights days ? actually making McConnell filibuster himself hoarse in the name of the fat wallets. He?d probably just read the Bible, but it?d make some gripping C-SPAN ? and maybe the voters would finally start to listen...
States? rights - it?s a phrase not often heard since the battle over civil rights. Now it could reemerge in the battle over the right to die. In a little-noticed move Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bill banning the use of "controlled substances" - prescription drugs - in physician-assisted suicide, which is currently legal only in Oregon. The bill, sponsored by Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), was approved by a 16-8 committee vote, and will face a full House vote in the coming weeks. Sponsors of the measure hope that it will prevent terminally ill patients and their...