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...Senators preparing for his confirmation hearings next week, the challenge will be to discover how he reconciles laws and principles and precedents and his own instincts when they come into conflict. To call him conservative is not very helpful without knowing whether it applies more to means or to ends. If conservatives are inclined to respect precedent, does that include the precedents they abhor? If Congress overreaches, is the court being too "activist" by stepping in? Some conservatives care most about freedom, others about order; when the two values conflict, which one will he favor? He will try hard...
...Number of hand-pulled rickshaws in Calcutta to be phased out by the end of the year, after more than a century in use, by legislators who have called this mode of transport a "human indignity" 404 Number of Moroccan prisoners of war, captives from the 30-year conflict over Western Sahara, released from Algeria last week 17 Average number of years the POWs were held, the longest known internment of soldiers in modern history 15 million Number of Popsicle sticks used to construct the Mjollnir, a 15-m replica of a Viking vessel that will launch from Amsterdam next...
...leader. His visit to a Cologne synagogue on Friday came less than a month after a diplomatic spat erupted with Israel, which had lashed out at Benedict for not including the Jewish state in a list of countries recently hit by terrorism. Issues of religious extremism and inter-faith conflict pose the toughest foreign-policy challenges for this Pope. And the signs are that he intends to talk tough. He used a meeting with German Muslim leaders on Saturday to bluntly denounce terrorism. "Those who instigate and plan these attacks evidently wish to poison our relations ... to oppose every attempt...
TIME reported on the conflict between recent Ecuadorian immigrants and longtime residents of Danbury, Conn., over the raucous volleyball games the Ecuadorians enjoy [Aug. 1]. The Danbury people who complain about the large games should be ashamed. Immigrants in the U.S. seem to be expected to leave their culture, color and accent behind. Long ago France gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty, which is inscribed GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR. Attitudes have changed so much since her arrival, perhaps it's time to return the Lady with the Lamp to France...
Moroccan prisoners of war, captured during the 30-year conflict over Western Sahara, sent home from Algeria last week...