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...abortion. He is personally against the practice, but has vowed to uphold a woman's right to choose. Buttiglione himself has made a similar distinction. In a letter of "regret" sent to Barroso last week, he wrote: "In politics, the only relevant issue is: Are you in favor of or against discrimination? ... I am against any kind of discrimination, [which means] defending those who hold views different from your own." Buttiglione says he can erect a firewall between his personal religious convictions and his duties as a public servant. But with both sides holding such passionate and diametrically opposed views...
...responsibility for antidiscrimination enforcement among several new Commissioners. Not good enough, say Buttiglione's opponents. The Parliament can't turn down individual Commissioners, but it can reject the Commission as a whole. And that's exactly what some groups are threatening this week. "The Socialist Group cannot vote in favor of this Commission," says its leader, Martin Schulz of Germany. "We do not have confidence in it." Only the center-right European People's Party supports Barroso's team. Group chairman Hans-Gert Pöttering warned that rejecting the Commission "would trigger a crisis with serious political consequences...
...punishment for displeasing Kummer is simple and consistent, even if what constitutes a transgression isn’t. The sins of wrongdoers are washed away by the cold, dirty waters of the Charles River, the same deity whose favor the team seeks to curry by preserving tradition with a religious zeal. “Tossing people into the Charles, oftentimes that’s a way of cleansing or purging a wayward soul,” said Kummer. “I’m not a Gaelic pantheist, but Newell is hallowed ground, and the Rio Carlos...
...only if a creature cannot find food in any other way. But very few hunters today kill wildlife to keep their children from starvation. Most hunters kill for pleasure. The hunting of any wild animal should be banned once and for all. But no politician is brave enough to favor such a position - hunters vote. Vassilis Banavas Thessaloniki, Greece You noted that protesters against the hunting ban have pointed out that foxes will still have to be killed as agricultural pests. That is not only appalling, but also downright absurd. Foxes deserve the same protection as the creatures highlighted...
...special projects over the next few years. According to census data, this pristine wilderness already has the second highest household income of all of Cambridge’s thirteen neighborhoods. But in an informal neighborhood poll conducted two years ago, residents voted 24-1 (with one abstention) in favor of halting all Harvard construction in the neighborhood—every last...