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Well, there’s a lot for the region to prove, and the people defend themselves by going overboard in most anything they do. In Michigan, especially in the Upper Peninsula and western parts of the state, the hunting and gun culture is celebrated with almost as much gusto as the Christian faith. Cars driving through the Hiawatha National Park were adorned with bumper stickers slogans like “A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a gun is a subject,” and many still sport post-September 11 flags. Gun culture...
...Roderick R. Paige, who is then responsible for making the final recommendations to President Bush. It is crucial that he reject any misguided proposals the commission endorses, uphold Title IX and urge its vigorous enforcement. Otherwise he—and ultimately the Bush administration—will have to defend their inexcusable actions to more than half of the population. Title IX helped many women and any attempt to weaken this landmark law will not escape their notice...
...thing which upset me was our lack of execution on the penalty kill,” Mazzoleni said. “They’ve run the same power play for three years. We knew how we wanted to defend it, we went over it on the board, showed a tape on it and we just didn’t execute...
...somebody had proposed, 'Let's go into the barrio in L.A. and find a family of immigrants and put them in a mansion, and won't it be funny when they interview maids?' then people could see that's a step too far." It's hard to either defend or attack a show that doesn't exist yet, but it's also true that the original sitcom was far harder on Mr. Drysdale than the Clampetts. And on The Osbournes, Ozzy--another Beverly Hills fish out of water--was "humiliated" into becoming the most beloved dad in America...
...Navy has plenty of high-tech gear poised to defend its fleet of carriers, cruisers and destroyers deployed in the Persian Gulf for possible war with Iraq. But the service has also quietly dispatched a low-tech team of military helpers: California sea lions...