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...lambasted by Democratic presidential candidates shows that the lines of battle are shifting. In Chicago the unions tarred Wal-Mart with criticism that 10 years earlier would have rallied black leadership against the company. Many of those opposing Wal-Mart in Chicago were black, but the presence of an equal--or greater--number of black supporters took the subject of race off the table. To the extent that it was a topic, race worked to Wal-Mart's favor in that it was used as a club to batter the unions...
...ruled that the territory's chastening laws on gay sex?including an age of consent of 21 (it's 16 for straights)?were discriminatory, unconstitutional and "demeaning." (Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1991, but not fully.) This is the first time a Hong Kong court has ruled that homosexuals are "equal under the law." Why did Leung choose to fight this legal battle? He told TIME: "I don't want to be treated as a second-class citizen." ?By Chaim Estulin...
...amplifies the rotation of the storm. The more intense the storm becomes, the more the temperature of its core climbs, accelerating the spin, exacerbating the storm, and leading to the meteorological violence we call a hurricane. And violent it can be: The heat released in an average hurricane can equal the electricity produced by the U.S. in a single year...
...issue that U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad has previously emphasized as vital to U.S. interests. There is also a clause that states no law may contradict democratic values, setting up a clash within the proposed constitution from the start. What will take precedence? Democratic values that say all citizens are equal before the law or Islamic tenets that state that women are not equal to men in such matters as court testimony, divorce, marriage and inheritance? Of course, such contradictions aren't unique to Iraq; in the years following the ratification of the U.S. constitution there were whole classes of Americans...
...butt cleavage, through the use of low-rise jeans and a complete lack of proper decency—had swept across campus and the country. Denim designers and fashionistas everywhere had spawned lines of clothing tailored specifically for this purpose. Magnitude of butt cleavage across females being mostly equal, at least compared to the normal kind of cleavage, the playing field was finally leveled...