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...Wait a minute, wasn’t the point of all that ‘suffrage’ and ‘women’s rights’ stuff the idea that women are equally capable of making rational decisions, and that men and women should be respected equally? Wouldn’t the logical extension of that spirit be to write laws based on the assumption that women are capable of intelligently making independent decisions? Should laws be based on the idea that the decisions women make are less legally binding than those of men because they?...
...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 when we forget what it feels like...
...quick" proxy war against Saddam would take weeks to plan and win--more than enough time for him to use the weapons he has assuredly been preparing since the U.N. inspectors were kicked out. So the choice between a slow or fast war against Iraq is one of equal evils. Either could end with horrors of a sort the world has not witnessed since Nagasaki...
Naseyowna and many of the 11,156 other residents of the reservation, along with a roughly equal number of neighboring Navajo, blame their dry springs and receding wells on Peabody Energy, which pumps 1.3 billion gal. of pristine water a year--enough to supply a community of 4,000 households--out of an ancient sandstone aquifer that lies beneath the Hopi and Navajo lands. Peabody claws coal out of land leased from the tribes at a site known as Black Mesa and pulverizes it into powder. The company then mixes the coal with water and pumps it through a pipeline...
...love story winds up as nothing but a shaggy ghost tale. No explanation is given for Sumire's disappearance, unless the reader accepts musings such as "this side is actually the other side" and that "on the flip side of everything we think we absolutely have pegged lurks an equal amount of the unknown. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstanding." Such pretentious meditations become even more irksome because of the cloying interspersions of Western allusions, from "snap, crackle, pop" to "The name is Bond. James Bond" to Huey Lewis and the News. Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy...