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...administration), the new rule endangers students by providing a disincentive to bring drunken kids to UHS from a fear of getting a friend (or, say the president of the final club you’re punching) into trouble. It’s a shame the Administration has chosen to favor pedantic bureaucracy over student safety...
...former media colleagues, though, who bore the brunt of Faludi’s scorn in her talk at the bookstore.She cited numerous examples from publications like the New York Times, USA Today, and Newsweek to underscore their apparent efforts to erode the progress of the feminist movement in favor of traditionalism.Post-9/11 articles would often cast single women as unpatriotic, lonely, and out of sync, she said. In addition, a “media cloud” of stories that Faludi described as “irrational” predicted that single women would rush to the altar, return...
...shows that use racist language. Free speech, in its most literal incarnation, seems to be something that only a handful of organizations think is worth fighting for. NETWORK HEROES?Nevertheless, it seems as if free speech advocates are making important inroads. In June, a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of a coalition of TV networks (Fox, CBS, NBC, and ABC) that argued that they should not be held responsible if they broadcast shows that use obscene language. If President Bush and Vice President Cheney are allowed to curse in public, the coalition argued, why should individual networks be held...
...find Gore gloating about it. This prize, after all, is a recognition that Gore has done more than anyone else (excepting Mother Nature) to bring about a sea change in public opinion. An overwhelming majority of Americans - 90% of Democrats, 80% of independents, 60% of Republicans - now say they favor "immediate action" to confront the climate crisis. Gore helped make that happen, but he can't take too much satisfaction in it. As he told me last spring, "Time is running out, and we still haven't done anything...
...Family's James Dobson did his best to knock off Fred Thompson as the least bad alternative to Rudy, in an e-mail to supporters that cited Thompson's lackluster rhetorical skills and questionable ideological commitment. But the real gauntlet DeMoss was throwing down was against the purists who favor an evangelical true believer like Sam Brownback or Huckabee or a Third Party Candidate To Be Named Later...