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...unfortunate that they should be commanding so much attention now, damping public confidence as the new administration fights to rally support for its economic stimulus package and carry out much-needed health-care reform. These cases make it clear that we should have higher levels of scrutiny over our civil service, demanding more tax records from public officials to identity these problems before they can cause such a damaging situation. Just like other citizens, politicians should be held responsible for paying their taxes. Daschle may have been a promising candidate, but America cannot afford even the appearance of a double...
...Cambridge City Council voted last night to oppose the use of Homeland Security surveillance cameras in eight locations in the city, citing concerns about the preservations of civil liberties. The cameras, which were installed last year but have yet to be activated, were funded by a federal Homeland Security grant program. The cameras were intended to monitor traffic during emergency evacuations, according to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley. But during the public comment segment of the meeting, citizens suggested that the potential civil liberties threats posed by the cameras outweighed any potential benefits. “They are the local...
...entails; our heads are now engaged, but not our hearts. Perhaps the wisest words come from Emerson, whose advice for the lovers of leaf and blossom in his own generation applies equally well for today’s environmentalists: “Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive...
...longest-running insurgency on the ropes: The separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) movement, long been considered one of the world's most fearsome guerrilla armies, lost its last stronghold at Mullaittivu on Jan. 25, and government officials are now confident of a decisive victory in the civil war that has claimed some 70,000 lives and displaced over a million people since...
...Domestic critics of the Sri Lankan government suggest that the success of the military campaign has spawned a bellicose nationalism that brooks little dissent, and as such has heightened unease within the country's civil society. Journalists and dissidents have felt pressure to remain silent, and the President's brother, tough-talking Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, told local press that he would "chase away" any foreign media deemed to be offering a sympathetic ear to the rebels. Outspoken newspaper editor (and freelance TIME contributor) Lasantha Wickrematunge, whose paper accused the Defense Minister and other prominent politicians of corruption, was last...