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...Tuesday the City Council in Madison will vote whether elected officials or city appointees can add to their oath of office, in which they swear to uphold the state and federal constitutions, a rejection of the parts they don't like. It started when Wisconsin amended its constitution to ban gay marriage, and a member of the city's Equal Opportunities Commission resigned rather than swear the traditional oath. Members of that board in particular, which is charged with protecting civil rights, felt torn about promising to uphold laws they felt were discriminatory. So the Council will debate whether public...
...been for a while because the North Koreans' decision to test actually succeeded in rallying everybody in a very dramatic fashion. We were - I was on the telephone with the other five - the other four within hours of the North Korea testing and we were in the Security Council with a resolution by the end of the week. That's lightning speed. And the - what it really showed was the benefit of having worked this coalition over a period of a number of years because it came together just like that. That now with the North Koreans under sanctions...
...develop a natural gas field in Iran. "We've made clear the downsides of investing in Iran," she said. While the secretary hasn't asked China point blank to abandon the plan, she has let Chinese officials know that investing in Iran while it is under U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to stop its suspect nuclear activities is "a financial risk and a reputational risk...
...Nagin, Riley and members of the City Council gravely watched Thursday as a succession of speakers, representing the city's various neighborhoods, railed against the violence and called on not only city leaders but citizens to do more to stop it. "We have come to lodge our complaint," growled Reverend John Raphael, Jr., pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Central City, one of the city's most crime-plagued neighborhoods. "We have come to declare that a city that could not be drowned in the floods of a storm will not be drowned in the blood of its citizens...
...Many Germans appear to agree. In one poll conducted before its release, 56% said they disapproved of Germany making a comedy about the dictator, while only 30% said they thought it a good thing to do. "I come from a Holocaust family," Dieter Graumann, vice president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany said in one interview. "It makes me feel queasy if someone is making fun of Hitler and the Holocaust...