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...battle for razor-thin margins of power in the U.S. House and Senate, this race was particularly close - a fact that is not expected to change if Mondale takes over, although Democrats hope the former Veep's sentimental value (and name recognition) could tilt things in their favor...
...evaluation of its policies. The plea for increased security at any cost is a dangerous one, raising the specter of a constitutional dictatorship. Open debate must be promoted, for in times of supreme emergency, if and when they arise, the mechanisms of deliberative democracy should not be discarded in favor of the unchecked consolidation of executive power. The only way to insure this is to provide an atmosphere of free inquiry. It is, of course, no surprise that there has been so little debate since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, especially considering Attorney General John Ashcroft?...
...February 2002, an arbitration panel decided that the fee would be 0.07 of a penny per song, per person. In July, the Library of Congress’ copyright office ruled in favor of it. Currently, the decision is on appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit...
Hoping to organize protest against the military action in Iraq and against Sen. John F. Kerry’s (D-Mass.) vote in favor of the Senate’s Iraq resolution earlier this month, Cambridge activist Randall C. Forsberg mounted a write-in senatorial campaign Wednesday...
...linked the siege with the global war on terrorism, and charged that the action was planned in a "foreign terrorist center," its roots more likely lie in a long-established tradition among Chechen insurgents of mounting dramatic terror strikes aimed at tilting the balance of power back in their favor. The latest siege is reminiscent of the hostage drama at Budennovsk in 1995, when Chechen rebels led by Shamil Basayev seized a Russian hospital in order, he later said, to make Russians suffer the way Chechens had suffered. Although 166 hostages died when the very same Russian anti-terrorism unit...