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Topeka-based minister Fred Phelps has been in the national spotlight for his group’s staunch opposition to homosexuality and frequent protests with strongly-worded signs. After commencement, the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, which was preparing to rule in a case concerning same-sex marriage...
Enthusiastically admired by his academic colleagues, Menand, who was unavailable for comment, is a frequent contributor to such popular forums as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. His book The Metaphysical Club, published in the summer of 2001, earned glowing praise from accomplished scholars and casual readers alike for its portrait of a loose group of American intellectuals after the Civil War—including such luminaries-to-be as Henry and William James and Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...resume and notepad on the second floor of Fleet Bank. Answering the question was undoubtedly challenging. Essentially, it boiled down to “Why are you here?” although only one interviewer actually phrased it that way. (It was only rivaled by my second-most-frequent question: “Are you related to David Kessler?” David, another junior economics concentrator with whom I share a last name, but no relatives, always seemed to have been interviewed a few hours before me. Fortunately, I only answered this question wrong once. Don?...
...Rantisi, Sharon told his Cabinet ministers, according to Gissin, "Jewish blood can't come cheap. We aren't going to be put on the altar of the road map." Gissin maintains that Sharon's revulsion to terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians dates from the 1950s, when there were frequent lethal penetrations of Israel from the West Bank, then controlled by Jordan. Sharon, a young army officer, took command of Unit 101, a counterterrorism outfit that launched reprisal attacks on Palestinian villages there. In 1953 one such attack on the village of Qibya led to the deaths of 69 people, half...
...continue to air differences in public. For DeLay, a former exterminator from Houston, Bush is a Republican born of privilege and more representative of his party's country-club wing, despite his Midland, Texas, roots and frequent trips to his Crawford ranch. Explaining himself, DeLay simply says, "I'm just a bug man." --By John F. Dickerson and Michael Weisskopf