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...last time a major political party put forward a Roman Catholic candidate for President, he had to confront bigotry and suspicion that he would be taking orders from Rome. Forty-four years later, the Democrats are poised to nominate another Catholic--another Senator from Massachusetts whose initials happen to be J.F.K.--and this time, the controversy over his religion may develop within the Catholic Church itself. Kerry's positions on some hot-button issues aren't sitting well with members of the church elite. Just listen to a Vatican official, who is an American: "People in Rome are becoming more...
...Alliance and pressure on Pakistan to cooperate in a campaign to remove the Taliban. It was essentially the same plan Clarke had drafted during the Clinton Administration. As his book details, the plan was scuttled by intransigence at the CIA and the Pentagon, neither of which Clinton wanted to confront head...
...Square Homeless Shelter applied for a $1,000 grant to buy a new washer/dryer set for their establishment. The Council’s grant to them? $400. The Coalition Against Sexual Violence was given $800 for its annual Take Back the Night project, which does a lot more to confront issues of sexual violence than publishing accounts of rape fantasies does, instead of its requested sum of $1,000. The same fate befell a proposed Doctors Without Borders panel on “Rape as a Weapon of War,” which had its requested amount nearly slashed...
...that could restrict Americans’ ability to punish corporate wrongdoing. Baseless lawsuits should be promptly dismissed; if any of these lawsuits are indeed without merit, then the courts will rule that way. The House should keep its hands out of a private citizen’s right to confront corporations in court...
...according to the Levitt study, NHL players take 75% of league revenue, compared with 58% in the NBA), although they don't seem eager to cut the jobs of all those goons by eliminating fighting. Still, Davidson hopes the "black eye to the sport" will force the league to confront its precarious situation and "avoid the work stoppage before we lose more people than we can afford...