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...candidate as an individual and with specific regard to public issues. Secondly, there are immense differences in individual beliefs among adherents of any religion, and to exclude any person on the general basis of his creed would be irrational and manifestly unfair, whatever the spurious generalization uttered to explain the policy. Golding is right that a person may legally vote as he wishes on any basis he chooses and may say so. But doing so on the basis of a candidate’s creed would be irrational and intolerant. If most people adopted the policy of voting down...
...talking about European troops in Lebanon and how he didn’t think that the governments had made an adequate commitment and he said ‘Ceci n’est pas un peacekeeping force,’” I explain...
...pornography. The show’s affliction runs deep in its third season, in which its characters’ relationships are bought with sexual currency.Such sexual leverage facilitates relationships in “Seinfeld” as well—when Jerry presses George to explain why he stopped seeing a woman just because she beat him at chess, he says, “I don’t see how I could perform sexually in a situation after something like that.” But Larry David’s characters are so well-defined—by their...
...body... if the system is defective and you’re lying face down, you will die,” he added. Cathy Spong, chief of the pregnancy and perinatology branch at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), said the results of the study explain why the NICHD’s campaign to have healthy babies sleep on their back has worked. According to Spong, the program has led to a decrease in the SIDS rate by twofold since its inception in 1994. Spong also emphasized the sentimental significance of the study...
...American Nicholas Berg, he went out of his way to specify that the gruesome murder was an act of revenge for crimes committed by the U.S. military against Muslims at the prison. Both Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, use events at the prison to explain their calls for Holy War against the U.S. "Al-Qaeda and other Jihadis still cite Abu Ghraib to demonstrate what they call U.S. crimes against Muslims," notes Rita Katz, director and co-founder of the SITE Institute, who has made a study of terrorist videos and other propaganda. "Some...