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...Qaeda-linked phone numbers and addresses inside the U.S. Gen. Hayden began that super-secret program soon after the September 11 attacks. He explained the program in such no-nonsense terms-calling it "hot pursuit" of possible terrorists on U.S. soil-and was so clear in insisting that American civil liberties were respected that some credit Hayden with helping the White House turn the disclosure of the controversial program into a political plus. The question is whether it will play well enough the second time around for President Bush that it again helps his historically low poll numbers...
...love of a gay couple? Also, faith for many of us is interwoven with doubt, a doubt that can strengthen faith and give it perspective and shadow. That doubt means having great humility in the face of God and an enormous reluctance to impose one's beliefs, through civil law, on anyone else...
...Take Venturi's Phillipe, for example. He was a civil engineer before the war, a practical and phlegmatic man who never raises his voice, even when he?s ordering the death of a traitor to the cause. He began his public life as a wrestler and it has been observed that in his presence he is the logical successor to Jean Gabin, another great screen actor whom the camera never catches acting. He just triumphantly is, a large, taciturn, slightly ponderous man whose compassion is totally implicit, yet somehow palpable - even when he?s overseeing the garroting of an informer...
...offenses during college still forfeit their funds from the government—and a spate of drug-related incidents earlier this year at Harvard has raised questions about the inviolability of financial aid at the College.Opponents of the federal drug policy want the HEA to be amended further.The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with the group Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), challenged the constitutionality of the HEA this past March, claiming that the amended version still offended the Fifth Amendment’s double jeopardy clause by punishing students twice for the same offense.And College administrators confirmed that...
...would simply deepen. The alternative might be to back Abbas seizing control over all the levers of government without new elections. But that would not only make a mockery of the Bush administration's stated commitment to democracy in the Arab world; it would likely set off a Palestinian civil war that would have negative implications for Israel as well as other U.S. interests and allies throughout the region...