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...exempt institutions that visibly backed Proposition 8—including Mormon, Catholic and Orthodox Jewish religious organizations and groups like the Knights of Columbus—is a deserved one; these institutions have a responsibility not to lobby and fundraise substantially for any political cause, let alone the dubious one in question...
...distributed and thousands of people participated in the process. The stunt also included a website - which is frequently overloaded and therefore slow - where users could read fake stories, click on ads and watch animated versions of those ads printed in the paper. Here's the text for a few dubious ones...
...with both China and Latin America. One cannot underestimate the former’s importance going forward: The U.S. should not only seek China’s cooperation in reshaping financial markets and addressing climate change but also counter its commodity-seeking foreign economic policy, particularly its support for dubious regimes in Africa in exchange for natural resources. Specifically, the U.S. should do everything possible to persuade Beijing to take action about Darfur. Looking south, the U.S. must remember Latin America, which the Bush administration decided to forget well before 9/11. In those latitudes, the “missing neighbor?...
...Tuesday night, he put to rest the crotchety, erratic old man who called the fundamentals of our broken economy “sound” and in an ill-advised, rash decision picked a running mate who, after giving the Republican ticket an initial boost, proved to be a dubious, and even dangerous, choice. Back was the dignified statesman of unparalleled courage and integrity, the maverick we knew before the word “maverick” became a punchline, and the bipartisan unifier calling for the nation to “work together to get our country moving again...
...ends of the spectrum are represented—the men who completely buy into the system and the men who try to fight against it. The narrator of “Farmer Airlines” decides to fly through a typhoon in an airplane piloted by a woman of dubious credentials in order to avoid a tongue-lashing by his boss. Even though he privately thinks his Editor-in-Chief’s orders are a “disastrous idea,” when other people voice this opinion, he speaks up in dishonest defense. Luckily he survives...