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After Judge John C. Lifland, presiding over the FAIR litigation, rejected the Defense Department’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit last Wednesday, some opponents of the Solomon Amendment predicted that other universities would be encouraged to file suit...
While he rejected the Pentagon’s motion to dismiss the suit, Lifland indicated his deep skepticism of the plaintiffs’ central arguments...
...problem is that Chomsky doesn’t care. He has never been able to compromise his beliefs for the sake of being accepted, and he doesn’t seem to mind the fact that most people dismiss him as a conspiracy theorist after such remarks. And while I do admire Chomsky for his unflinching integrity, I find myself wondering if he is more concerned with exposing injustice than removing injustice, more interested in criticizing America than in improving it. Chomsky is almost 75 years old and he has a choice to make: he can continue to radically dissent...
...Tamil population?which is mostly Hindu?by holding the rally on the Hindu sacred day of Deepavali, Kumaratunga is considering an alliance with an ultra-nationalist Sinhalese group in the next elections. Those elections could be held at any time: constitutionally, the President has almost arbitrary power to dismiss the Prime Minister and dissolve Parliament. While Wickremesinghe is credited with bringing about peace, scandals featuring politicians linked to his party could gnaw at his already slender parliamentary majority in new elections. Mahinda Rajapakse, a prominent opposition politician and close ally of the President, insists that his own party will...
...advance team staged," said General Wes Clark. "I guess that next thing we are going to hear is that the sailors told him to wear the flight suit and prance around on the aircraft carrier. This is a president who does not want to take accountability." White House officials dismiss criticism from the president's opponents. "They have ten different positions on the war that they can't get straight," said a senior Bush aide. "I'm glad they can keep a single position on the banner." Communications Director Dan Bartlett, who approved the hanging of the controversial banner does...