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...always obvious that the president would nominate a conservative. There are three basic types of persons he could have nominated-a "stealth candidate," such as Harriet Miers, who has little record; a thoughtful and open-minded conservative; or a doctrinaire or "instrumental" conservative who has an agenda to enact. "We are going to have a conservative on the court-that's a given-so between those three choices I would much prefer having someone who is intelligent, open-minded and doesn't approach things knowing the result they want to come away with." Concludes Stein: "If the President...
...mail exchanges that were compiled on the website, the club members posted judgments about females seeking entrance, disclosed their decision to enact an informal détente with the all-female Bee Club, and revealed their reliance on male clubs for social space...
...Asian governments need to fight terror on multiple fronts. Both Indonesia and the Philippines should enact stern counterterrorism laws. Indonesia should ban J.I., enabling the country's security agencies to move decisively against it. And it should clean up the radical madrasahs that breed extremists, subjecting them to tougher law enforcement and pressuring Muslim religious and educational organizations to police them. In the Philippines, the authorities should shut down training camps through intelligence-led military action and through talks with the main Muslim militant group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
...Ghad (Tomorrow) Party. Despite private objections from the Bush administration, his trial is scheduled to go ahead after the election. The other prominent challenger is law professor Noaman Gomaa, 71, leader of the New Wafd Party, a nationalist group formed in 1919 that promises to liberalize the economy and enact political reforms. The Muslim Brotherhood, a banned but tolerated group with widespread appeal among Egyptians (its candidates, run as independents, constitute the biggest single opposition bloc in parliament) called on its supporters to vote - but not for a "tyrant." Because the Brotherhood is prevented from fielding a candidate...
...turn over the subpoenaed records, we shall continue to support the protection of confidential sources. We do so with the knowledge that forty-nine states and the District of Columbia now recognize some form of protection for confidential sources, and that legislation is now pending in Congress to enact a federal shield law for confidential sources...