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...casualties at home. "We are in a fight for our principles," the President said, "and our first responsibility is to live by them." America is most proud of qualities that proved most vulnerable: our embrace of people of every faith and color, our appreciation for dissent as essential to democratic wisdom. Barbara Lee, Democrat of California, was the only lawmaker to vote against the bill authorizing the use of force; her office began receiving death threats. When dissent is made to seem unpatriotic, a little sliver of democracy is dying...
...appointment Thursday night, Bush called him "a military veteran, an effective Governor, a true patriot and a trusted friend." Bush, fearing resistance, had not told his Cabinet about the new post until he was ready to announce it to the world. But ex-Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, a Democrat who has tangled with Ridge, says charm is in Ridge's favor: "He's an impossible guy to stay angry...
...commission co-chaired by Rudman and former Democratic Senator Gary Hart concluded in January that the threat of terrorism called for nothing short of a new federal department combining FEMA, the Customs Service, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard. Many in Congress agree. "If you want to get a job done, there's no substitute for having an agency with a budget," says Democrat Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. But given the fact that Republicans in Congress were trying to kill four Cabinet departments only six years ago, it's hard to imagine a Republican...
...their diversity targets, but they also nearly always pay full tuition. In California alone last year, 66,000 foreign students paid colleges nearly $700 million in tuition and fees. But after the terrorist attacks of two weeks ago, the open door may start closing. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, suggested a six-month moratorium on the issuance of student visas. Even the American Council on Education, a lobbying group that represents most of the nation's colleges, recognizes that student visa policy will have to change. Says senior vice president Terry Hartle: "We all realize the government will...
Both Somerville Alderman Denise Provost, whose city shares the Tufts campus with Medford, and Democrat State Representative Patricia D. Jehlen, spoke at the rally...