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...made to avoid any sort of oversight. The rule went into effect before it was published and the normal period of public comment was avoided by invoking a rarely-used exemption clause. By bypassing the other branches of government in promulgating this rule, Ashcroft also displayed an astonishing disregard for the concept of a separation of powers...
...expanded oil-for-food program. He has continued to use the people of Iraq as his pawns in a callous act of international blackmail, exhibiting their abject poverty as evidence of U.S. cruelty while he and his henchmen live in luxury. His behavior is evidence of his utter disregard for the people of Iraq—if anyone had needed more from a leader who attacked his own nation’s citizens with nerve...
...loss Gore’s fault too? It seems like he won the election, right? Maybe so, but Gore should be criticized for running his recount campaign with a complete disregard for the American citizen. Instead of striving for true justice—the accurate counting of every American’s vote—he chose to play politics and requested the unfair recounting of only the areas that he thought would help...
...have never seen such disregard for the rules prohibiting official prayer in school as in the past few weeks [THE SCHOOLS, Oct. 22]. It seems as though every teacher has something to add to the torrent of messages urging the public to pray, pray, pray. This is a problem for Islamic students across the U.S. Not only do they have to worry about prejudice; now they must also try to tune out the references to Jesus from their teachers and fellow students. If school prayer is reinstated, Islamic (and other non-Christian) students will have a choice between hypocrisy...
Although there’s no denying that the situation today is extraordinary, that doesn’t make racial profiling any less destructive. Our war against terrorism is self-defeating if we disregard the principles that make our country worth defending: that everyone within our borders, whether permanently or just passing through, is entitled to equal protection and equal rights under the law, and that religion, race and ethnicity can never be grounds for discrimination. We betray our sacred commitment to these ideals when we detain Middle Eastern travelers without cause, and we betray the spirit behind these ideals...